Soldier Romantic Poems

(1.)

The Truth Of Dearest Love Sworn, I Ask God How

Over the grit-stained shoulders of ancient marble
Rests a million vagaries of humanity's million sins
Just as earth's...

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This poem is for all those couples who have loved ones with responsibilities around protecting their nation, like the armed forces. Especially, all those involved...

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Early winter morning remembering
From the soft warm depths 
Of an old man’s bed:
Walking through dark streets
Shivering with cold,  thinking of
The soft warm bed she’d...

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Under the midnight moon, romance waited
its true heart and beauty, with love baited
for dawning gleam across powdered snow
and she her handsome soldier to soon show
for...

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My cup overflows.
Water runs from the glass to the rim,
churning forth,
flooding everything that lies in it's path.
What is this?

It seeps
into all the cracks and crevices,
all...

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The Depth of My Love:

I just hope my words can tell you
The depth of love I feel for your love
I know now this love is...

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Time looked like everything,
Time is partly everything,
Time is the worst part of every misery,
And I mean every misery;
Time looks like the guns, the tanks, the...

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Welcome home the family has missed you                        Dad come down now    ...

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The State of the Art (I)
by Michael R. Burch

Has rhyme lost all its reason
and rhythm, renascence?
Are sonnets out of season
and poems but poor pretense?

Are poets...

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Real Men

Bigger than life, 
the man I married, 
is/was everything and more, 
I thought before, 
I said I do. 

He took care of his family,...

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Numbers

Life is measured. 
How much can you do?
Whimsical ideas, 
dashed to the rocks...
in favor of older methods, sure of return.

Courage beyond position, 
ambition to prove...

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What Party Are You?

Huh?
Does it matter?
Who I voted for? 
I am alive, 
so it was legal. 
I have not been dead, 
for thirty years. 
Surely...

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Christmas Princess

I picked you up early, 
we went to your friends. 
I watched as they all…
watched you. 
You laugh lightly, 
and bring joy in your...

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Dreams of the Nutcracker

When I am older, 
I will sweep you off your feet. 
I will take you from here, 
2 a land far away....

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No Joke

Highway 99, 
goes no where… 
I tell you. 
I have been there 
and back. 

You have to go, 
but you can not find it....

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