Short Casualty Poems
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I went to sleep at fourteen
and woke up at forty
A prisoner of reluctance
—casualty of time
(Dreamsleep: July, 2022)
a kiss on the cheek
is fair as fair can be. a
kiss on the mouth, and
it might become love or just
an endearment casualty.
Victim of his own success…
the treadmill calls,
the hourglass broken
—casualty of what time denies
(The New Room: November, 2020)
"From the River to the Sea
'Palestine' will be free"
Freely articulated ~
Seven million Jews eviscerated
A victim
of words
and casualty
of what time
will avow
Dylan
in white face
the old
and the new
— his music enclouds
(Highway 61: October, 2025)
Tryst
befriends
a hodgepodge
of too much pangs
leading to unsuspected circumstance
despite light at the end of the tunnel
count on lights out
as miss match
no friend
twist
If the first casualty of war
is truth
The next casualty of war
is peace
The third casualty of war
is life
Until the last casualty of war…
hope
(Warsaw: March, 2022)
"Poppycock and hooey indeed,"
Said the man of the new machine ran by steam
"It shall never catch on,
Even after I'm gone."
Sobering words by the first train casualty.
Two sisters sit beguiled in common guilt;
all that is left.
That
and denials;
bitterness
turned outwards;
inwards too painful.
Truth, a casualty
like lost children.
Love, just a word.
a darkness simmers
shading the edges of truth
…..abiding in lies
©3/7/2022
Is Truth The First Casualty of War and Why is That
sponsor - Sotto Poet
The first casualty of war…
truth
The last casualty of war…
death
Truth fighting death,
beginning to end
Questions unanswered
—gravestones contend
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2020)
Contrived to be relevant
An extreme subversive
of distorted concoctions
While having his stricken soul bare
And denigrated to a faceless crone
For his vicissitudes are an improbable casualty
Of a broken soul....
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the harvest a cruel person reaps
from all the seeds they sow
all yield weeds and thorns
of guilt and revenge,
growing in a secret garden
behind walls, doors, shutters, gates
enclosed by self in iron and stone.
When I think of you of you
my heart sings a battle cry,
you and no other my love
I never ask the cosmos why.
I charge forth so sure in my truth
I don't ask if it's just me
who feels the heat
or am I going to be another casualty.
Daniel
Reminds me
That a name
That is not a casualty of war
Is a name that may not adorn
A war memorial gravestone
But is rather living among the walking dead
That came home to live out
The days of thunder
For countless others
Johnson believed that
war’s proponents use falsehood
to garner support . . .
this wise man died the same day
the atomic bomb got dropped
April 5, 2022
For Sotto Poet's Is Truth The First Casualty Of War And Why Is That Poetry Contest
Dancing to the tune of iniquity,
Deviously artless in their silent retreat,
Elusively lashing out unjustly,
Pelting out timorous creeds;
A casualty in their vapid beliefs,
Brought upon by diligent lunacy,
Primed in erroneous ideologies.
Without darkness
sunlight
would be hard
to see
The first
casualty
of blindness
is truth
Knowledge
lacking reference
an egg
that won’t hatch
As wasted
on the folly
of the young
— is youth
(Dreamsleep: September, 2026)
COGNITIVE DISSONANCE-:-
nonlinear
incongruity
apprehended
disharmonic
dilemma
of THIS OR THAT OPTIONS
entropic
maelstrom
actuated
equinamity
casualty
of NEUROTIC FRACAS
innate
dissension
deranged
dismantled
sagacity
They found him outside the hospital,
Conveniently.
How he managed to get there
All his brain was blown away now,
There he stood in the emergency room
Pronouncing simply and forevermore 'Uh.'
The heart wrenching lament of
A defeated weekend warrior.
Tears have brimmed just beneath
a facade I afford humanity.
Held at bay with fragile strength,
weakened by emotional casualty.
Pain, anger. I unravel.
Elements of personality lost.
I feel my essence shrivel.
Patience like an angry sea, storm tossed.
Love once was the focus
of our lives
till marriage became contentious;
two sharp knives
piercing the heart of it,
killing it.
Teamed hardhearted misfits
dualistic
by nature, antipathetic
where love’s the casualty
and we, just another statistic.
That which hides in the worst of us, digs for itself an open grave with time,wherein the henchmen of peace war in efforts to preserve the divine nature of a living conscience, and its right to exist without becoming the casualty of a chosen reality.
Alfredo Gonzales ©
Tree befallen...
Moss crept, covered green
Bow thyself down
Onto ache of knotted knee
Ashen Oak...
Ageless elder, time's casualty
May you molder
Swift into winter's drifting sleep
Sacrificial timber...
In decay, another's sanctuary
Are thee eternal, yet alive
In a peace of nature's dream
Life changes come in little increments
along a fated journey fraught with twists and turns.
But once in a while
changes come on sudden and dramatic
like the day you passed away.
A fatal blow ~
the instant when I became unwhole
a widow
a casualty of love.
AP: Honorable Mention 2025