Short Frontline Poems

I have foreboding
My country is in frontline
Of war that's brewing.
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A faraway coast
The coldest of wars
A frontline post
Flying machines with whirly blades
and painted on red stars
search in vain for a ghost
Tension was high
In the waters off Kamchatka Krai...

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Do not enter my heart
You’re bound to get lost
My tough exterior hides 
The intricacies of the inside
But if you are prepared to battle
The elements of my emotion
I will greet you at the frontline
And pray that you are victorious...

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Sickness incredulously slipped the noose
wormed its way past healthy constitutions
and lodged spear like into Adams’ rib

Tenaciously Life held back 
marshalling the frontline
lymphocytes funneled nutrients
from Mother’s soup
into the societal fray....

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the war was well 

on its way
mottled and coddled
 battled  and  bottled
before the

            front was modeled
      the frontline was hobbled
the forefront was cobbled

dark hearts be doubled
light hearts be troubled

the war is well
on its way...

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None to comfort none to save
Broken splendid total naïve
Battle worn and leather bound
Gasping groaning final sound
Mixing rapid blasted fine
Frontline wasted shattered mind
Fusing cordite steady burn
Starflight wonder past return


July 19, 2019...

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i reminisce on the day you passed
our starlight dimmed and flickered 
some sang
morning came
days,weeks passed
and those that were on the frontline
forgot
songs didn't cease
but actions proved wrong

now it's been 10 years
they mock at your memory
my people keep on gettin poor....

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For God and country, swaying toe to line.
Like whispers lost upon a mighty wind.
A cadence echoes; “soldiers ‘til the end.”
Why bestow our youth upon the frontline?

Tides that rise; too must fall to sculpt their shores.
The price of Freedom is too often death.
Life devoid of Liberty; wasted breath.
American Dreams cast in souls of wars!...

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Mean Joe Greene number seventy-five
kept the Pittsburgh Steelers alive

was a solid wall on that frontline
and sacking the quarterback was fine

the Steel Curtain was solid back then
in the seventies they’d always win

that was the decade of the Steelers
take your rookie card to a dealer

and maybe it is worth some green
never forgetting mean Joe Greene...

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dreaming about nothing much
in a life between the confines
in a state so hazy it trips me up
and catches me in the frontline

then life drifts past as I watch from the back seat
time rolls by in a flurry of words
catching the act that she never did play
catching the act the one of dismay

you heard my song - that's my call to you
and I'm already feeling out of tune
i'll show you it was rosy yesterday
now i'm catching the act the one of dismay...

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Goodbye said in an ICU
No goodbye at the other frontline
A shot to the head
Elsewhere, a shot to revive
Fear destroys.
A doctor intervenes to stop a forever-goodbye
Elsewhere doctor fights to be a survivor
Good bye to a culture
In a dark corridor is the new human endeavour
Goodbye- a language in vernacular
In silence and broken connections 
In every conceivable horror
Witness this last wars of warriors
Despairing universe has set the sun on fire....

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Feel the thunder
It rattles my brain
Wakes me up
Drives me insane
Feel the rain 
Gets under my skin
In a game
I'm not suppose to win
Lightning flashes
Across my mind
So bright
It makes me blind
Looking 
For morning light
Not going to hide
Going to stand and fight
My enemy
Strikes from within
I've been waiting
For this fight to begin
No need to kick
No desire to scream
This battle takes place
In my dream
For tonight
The men in white
Will strap me down
Nice and tight...

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