Soldier Quatrain Poems

Lovely lady you know I am a drifter
Life didn’t need to move any swifter,
So many tales over the years,
A drifters life doesn’t consist of fears.

When...

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Like lone soldier, wounded from war 
That mends his heart from place afar 
On a nature away from home 
He's left to wander and to...

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Was sitting in my wheelchair in my den,
My son, playing with trucks on the floor.
The smell of pot roast wafting from the 
kitchen door.
I thought...

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Too Many Poppies  

I don’t want a poppy
I don’t want a shield
I don’t want to visit
Rows in Flanders Fields

Another young person 
Yes a young...

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The earth is thy battlefield and I have a calling to be a soldier,
the weapon of the spirit is accessible to face the future even...

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That night amidst cries, clamours, din, 
When coffin scandal headlines claimed, 
We shuddered— such was stench of sin, 
Those in snow felt ash grey, ashamed,...

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It appears to be inevitable,
    That conflict is renewed.
Where passions outweigh the passive,
    Becoming arrogant and rude.

When the diplomats...

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We are destined to repeat history;
wars are nonstop... and the killing goes on.
And though little girls are raped and murdered,
in life's game of chess, they...

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 Several years ago, we bought an old farm house.
 It was 3 miles down a dirt road beside an old millhouse.
 It seems this...

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I'm going to the legion
where soldiers drink in fear
And stories being told aloud
are never what you'd hear

That all who had a hand
in what was once...

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Once when I was just a kid,
My sister eight years older,
My sister's boyfriend came to call,
While we were playing soldier.

Stationed in the jungle we,
Cut off...

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Slow and steady that growth this Land,
Of the free and brave at hand,
Manliness runs along,
In his heart a woman’s song,

To her husband does she sing,
Strengthens...

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O’Great Nations of the West,
To you I pen my loving best,
A Warning for all Military,
Leviathan that Dragon waits for thee,

When thou thought all is well,
Plotted...

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Saving seventy-five men
Was truly a noble act; 
Doing it without firing 
A gun brought a huge impact.

Hacksaw Ridge is a story
Of the medic Desmond Doss;...

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Below the Dungeons of Despair
Alone, atones the scattered bones, 
As shattered death-dreams linger there
To moan and groan their tragic tones.



It lies beside the Sea of...

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