Short Medals Poems

Now
out
of sight-
his medals
lie in a drawer....

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Medals
shiny gold
hang on my wall
from my accomplishments;
I've won....

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the heroes of war
with medals
lay on yonder field

  © Harry J Horsman 2018...

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in trenches of fear

submerged breathless for glory -

mud medals and God


30th January 2020...

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Training is more valuable than wins and losses
Life is more valuable than birth or death
Medals are gifts to society....

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French painter Phillipe Rousseau
with still life had a go
Paris salon medals one two three
& Knight d'honeur was to be...

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winning his ticket home dishonorably, the victor lies in a ditch

12/23/2018
Contest: Winners and Losers
Sponsor: Silent One...

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Brave souls, seek not to decorate themselves with medals

But only with the wounds caused by life's many afflictions!








© Demetrios Trifiatis
     14 August 2022...

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and they gave me medals...

my hands still shake
sometimes they bleed 
as i return to
another time when
i paid no heed
to a living soul and
no one was safe
from the likes of me....

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rest in peace?


they ordered him to kill 
several men
- and gave him several medals
when he decided
love another man
- gave him several stabs





from Baba de Moço, second edition, 2012....

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laurels
military, athletic
wrestling, running, boxing
Athens, Sparta  ~  Tokyo, Beijing
karate, skateboarding, monobobsled ...
artistic, driven
medals


August 6, 2012...

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In the game of love you know all the right moves
With Terpsichorean precision, purposeful and bold
You are mistress of passion, keeper of my heart
If they awarded medals for love you’d get the gold...

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Celebrated American gymnast, Simone Biles 
Is ahead of her competition a fistful of miles 

The most decorated in Olympic medals, ever.
In hearts and minds of fans, she'll live forever....

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The graves have been dug
all bugles away
Medals awarded
for valor displayed

The soldiers in transit
to homes once so dear
But where is the peace
—when gunfire you hear

(Opening Poem To My New Novel: ‘Approaching Storm’)...

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A soldier in battle
  Hears the  bullets rattle
  And is caught in the crossfire

 He is draped in the flag
  His medals turn to tags
  Silent and without desire

 Melancholy  speaks  truth
  Eternity meets youth
  Before his final salute...

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TRAFFIC  ACCIDENTS

Undeclared war of stupidity
No commanders - anarchy

No ranks,   no orders
No hands up,  no prisoners 

No medals, no white flag
No peace treaties, no appeal to the JAG

No winners - only losers
Everybody’s enemy - drunken drivers....

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Staunch, spine straight as a flagpole
    Chin tucked into neckfolds of flesh
  Face itch, lips blubber incessantly... 

    Hips thrust forward... twin bulldozers
  Life expectancy, a speck in a sandstorm
    Rows of medals under gray sash, Iraq...

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To those who held the fort,
To those who fought and won,
To those, though worn, stood tall,
Your strength-like wall, is kept.

You scars, be worn like medals,
Shine bright like petals in sun;
The chains be burn'd like cobwebs
You are celebs, till ever!...

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Punctured and bruised
soiled and used
a soldier laying dead
Fallen and scorned
with no medals adorned
decorated with wounds instead

A flag left burning
apathetic heads turning
no eye wishes to see
an unmarked grave
with no country to save
this is what happened to me...

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runted rose
stunted pose
pedals arose
medals proposed
gold teeth rattle ing
catches
in
the dirt
bury me
in a bucket
lunacy ends
nevermind
lets lets lets
do it again
think he cant fly
look look look
cloud high
no
there on the bush
its
a
hunted crows
runted rose
?...

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Another medal of honor! What did I do? Asked the stork.
You are a beacon of hope, you bring the light. 
We wait for you, wondering, and you deliver.
I only do my job as God intended, said the stork.
It is more than enough, the new parents said.
Pinning another medal of honor onto his chest....

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Each one determined not to finish first
Taking each step leading to the end
But all finish the race
No winners all losers
No spectators no ribbons no medals adourned
Breathless athletes, spurned to the line
That final wisp of humanity
and the last pulse of life
See you at the finishing line...

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Each one determined not to finish first
Taking each step leading to the end
But all finish the race
No winners all losers
No spectators no ribbons no medals adourned
Breathless athletes, spurned to the line
That final wisp of humanity
and the last pulse of life
See you at the finishing line...

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Love for the Stars and Stripes
Took him to far places
He was proud and duty bound
And then his life changed

On his chest the medals gleamed
There, oh those red ribbons
That he could not see 
But memories of her face



Barbara Gorelick

6/18/14 Shine with Your Naani...

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He wanted his glory to be sound
And for medals to be found
So he enlisted to wear the uniform
Looking good even in death would be not forlorn

He did his duty but did not find
The glory that was in his mind
For he was injured and suffered still
There is no glory in this uniform deal.

© Paul Warren...

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