Mortars Poems - Poems about Mortars

...Brick by brick, I built this home, each piece with purpose, in which it owns. It was the hardest task I ever did face, As I made sure everything was in its right place. Yet, suddenly, my house co......Read the rest...

...Let hope rely upon your Maginot for swift retort has choked your Gallic might. It crushed your will beneath its undertow as diligence receded in the fight. Your flailing forces teeter on defeat ......Read the rest...

...Consciousness Correction – 11-20-23 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Consciousness Correction Envy sneaks in unseen A thief robbing light from my house of ......Read the rest...

...Blistering and scorching sands Land of the hushed and crushed hands Up the creepy furs clasping 'round Ebbing scraped sand of ants' mound Mortars of the deep and steamy skies O'er peals ......Read the rest...

...They suddenly barged in their tanks and trucks Covered in various armaments of war. Their vehicles droned, piercing the silence, Cutting deep wounds in that fertile land, And desecrating the once......Read the rest...

...O to have endless stretch ‘pon earth to roam, Return to rest, to roost, to my sweet home. Sweet home, forever a mighty magnet To go back to an ever open gate, Its awe and allure never once on......Read the rest...

...Roads Roads of concretes Roads of tar and mortars takes Us all around......Read the rest...

...On the first day if Christmas not much of a yield A false sense of peace over a normally killing field On the second day of Christmas each peace patrol Went back and forth from billets in its appo......Read the rest...

...I wake up with the sound of a cannonball on the third month in the season of fall, finding courage to brave this storm, while its fierce wind blows my home. I look above and make the call ......Read the rest...

...Who had gone to the Headquarters With my real age and a wagging tongue? Who at The Board pounded me with mortars From a determined snitching lung? I guess a fellow while still standing Didn’t ......Read the rest...

...An Awful Harvest I went a hike up to Wawa in Montalban and up the mountain roads. Here I was to go past the peaks of Mt Parawagan, Susong Dalaga and Mt Lagyo plus others. The road had been improved ......Read the rest...

...Thirteen times that flag when down Thirteen times picked from the ground Thrust aloft by last man standing With the mortar shells still landing Wield the colours twenty paces Over fallen frie......Read the rest...

...For Those Thrust into War's Maw by Michael R. Burch This poem is dedicated to Harvey Stanbrough, an ex-marine who was nominated for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize and has written passionately and eloqu......Read the rest...

...Privilege by Michael R. Burch This poem is dedicated to Harvey Stanbrough, an ex-marine who has written eloquently about the horror and absurdity of war in "Lessons for a Barren Population." N......Read the rest...

...We've dug down deep. We've dug our trench. This smell of death We wish to quench. The mortars fall on muddy field. The bodies mount in no mans land. The enemies fight neither wish to yield. Fo......Read the rest...