Soldier River Poems

These days want and need are 2 different steeds
You see the things you don't like about yourself
You stand your ground but the ground is now...

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The bridge between our hearts 
as fine as spiderweb threads
Along it soldiers march 
workers trample, children skip
with balls of light
cows graze, horses gallop

 
Between our...

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Nothing more intimate than sleep
wake before dawn, go downtown
prepare for tomorrow, come home from work late.

Most cities prosper undisturbed
sleeping peacefully
while the tide goes out.

Are we...

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In eighteen seventy nine; twenty second of January 
Was the day of a great battle and for the Zulus victory 
At Isandlwana the Zulu army...

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No Mark
by Michael R. Burch

A wave implodes, 
impaled upon
impassive rocks...

this evening
the thunder of the sea
is a wild music filling my ear...

you are leaving
and the ungrieving
winds...

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From weary roads 
Where thoughts escape
A peaceful day
Has gone away
In battle cries 
To raise a hand 
Where war remains 
For he who stands
Shall one day...

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They were Meriwether Lewis and William Clark,
Her name was Sacagawea.
On an expedition they did embark
Finding the passage to the sea.

Down the Missouri they traveled, 
Then...

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a boy is boating on the yellow river 
singing songs and praising the nature 
singing loudly and thanking the creator 
woods are there beside the...

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More than two years it be since me old dad had to fly. I miss him you know, he was 
my best friend. I miss...

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