Soldier Parents Poems

Breaking the chains-
Required lots of pain, 
Starting from young age.

Mom died when I was 16
Dad passed when I was 23.
Their demons danced together,
over 25 years...

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With World War II finally over, the soldier returned home to Tennessee.
To his previous life and his young, loving wife
But what once was two now...

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Working over Birk’s Works and other tunes my saxophonist admires—
Cheesecake, Blackbird—for the theoretical, applied mathematics
inside an abstract, audial harmonization of the Big Bang and The...

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T'was in the 1960s in South Africa. There was a brand of sweets that fascinated us young ones. Inside the pocket of sweets were toys...

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Someday

When I grow up, 
I want to be... like my father. 
He serves in the military, 
and helps other people 
around the world. 
He fights...

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My parents said their vows
        on Veterans Day

     Soldiers enlisting for marriage
  ...

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Our  house is abuzz
With Me, Bella and Jess 
And Mummy is all delight
“Dad’s coming home tonight! “

The Cake has been made
The table has been...

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Lying in a field forgotten by time,
beauty on the surface keeps the truth blind.
Grass covering a man without a soul,
etched words begin a story sadly...

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monkey
playful friend
from Viet Nam
sent by loving soldier
60's...

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Every day, I sit at my window, waiting
I’ve stayed for you-
I will stay until you come home
And every time, you do
Every time, I jump into...

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For Parents of Captain Khan

(Thought about Wrath of Khan
when I was writing this.)

Saw many magnificent flowers out front
Which were exactly what we will want
With several...

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An old man looking out his door,
gaze fixed on a distant shore,
reminiscing to a time, not of happiness,
or, the prospect of a bright future,
to when...

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