Short Purple Heart Poems

many soldiers wounds of the psyche....that bleed another
sacrifice...

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Lost Mustang pilot/Purple Heart killing Germans/English hillside, end...

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I knew you don't go in,
     But I wasn't coming out.
          When you're a fish in the fish bowl
     Going belly up....

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soldier awarded a purple heart
she is selfless and giving
brought into this world by angels
carefully nurtured and lead
willingly sacrificing for others...

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purple heart on wall

coffin's flag furls in fall wind –

   day to remember



*Entry for Deborah Guzzi’s Holiday Haiku contest in honor of Veterans Day...

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Octavius Australopithecus
  Decided he would take a leak with us
    He aimed his big shooter
    Hosed down an armed looter
  Now relieved ~ his reward superfluous...

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be my valentine
my purple heart pants for you
karate belt too



Written February 4, 2019                                   Contest: Valentine Senryu
Sponsor: Tania Kitchin...

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In the back of my mind;
I'm lavender blind;
Purple presents;
Heart's intwine;
Blessed amidst all men;
Mixed purple heart;
Doesn't seem right;
Royal purple blessings;


9/27/19...

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Golden Spiral



ONE amazing Fibonacci sequence earns a purple heart
POINT of division breaks rectangular apart
SIX lily petals blossom brings delight
ONE quest of phi shapes ammonite
EIGHT the symbol of infinity everlasting fractal art...

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His ebony tongue mouth discord;
Abundant flourished uncured;
Purple Heart death came close;
Browning skies fled past the nose to throat;
Blues blue brews asking hosts;
Blackness is the body of the voice ;

9/12/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2022©...

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I will release
Words of my soul
With flair
 
And tinted: red--
The color of 
My purple heart

Into the night
Where wind breathes
With its might 

And melts
Them, in your lips
With no one 

Hears us 
Except, the stars 
Winkling-- 

In agreement
With our 
Silent gasp....

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Lovers
                                           Big ship
                                        Purple heart
                                          Life boats
                                        Deep ocean 
                                              Teresa Skyles

 Entered in...

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A Tiff A Tat
Tittle Tattle
Gossiping
Hate Occurs
Who Suffers
Mankind
I Want This
I Want That
Who gets What
Republicans or
Democrats
Split in two
For a Country
Of One
Unwilling to
Share
Red and Blue
Mixed together
Is Purple
Our Country
Is wounded
We all now have
A Purple Heart
Destroyed by:

Politicians...

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Brave
soldier’s
homecoming
Will the pup win
the battle for who captures the first hug?

Rockwell’s welcoming committee deserves
a purple heart.
Raising bonds
for war’s
end.


February 13, 2021

picture 3, Norman Rockwell's "Homecoming"
I used PS's Syllable Counter

contest:  Double Tetractys 7
sponsor:  Eve Roper...

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I don't see the funny part 
Of calling a woman Tart:
What you now plan to restart 
And just burn a happy heart 

Words of mischief stacked in cart 
Had never won Purple Heart 
The loosed tongue may around dart 
But don't fail to smell like fart 

I foresee some tomorrow 
Face of repentance borrow;
The hacked heart still in sorrow:
Tina's: tears fill a barrow....

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Guide me to the campus of love, 
a heart lost to a silent strike.
Teach me patience, I long for solace,
in hopes of tranquility as my teacher.
That if I dare fall,
cloud-like comfort will cushion me.
Welcome me back home,
tender loving care of untainted touches.
Welcome me back home,
I want to rest in the arms of my Love. 

16 June 2022
2022 Poetry Marathon Mile 2
Sponsor: Mark Toney...

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Eddie took up the call from ‘Uncle Sam’
Awarded a Purple Heart from Vietnam
PTSD turns him into Jekyll and Hyde
His poor wife lives in fear, she’s petrified

Her daily beatings are a disgrace
Livid purple bruises mar her face
Designer shades cover her black eyes
No one sees fists fly or hears her cries

Purple 2 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Kevin Shaw

1/26/19...

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They said it was for wounds received
  as they pinned it to my chest,
but the wounds they couldn't see
  were far worse than the rest.

They took away my childhood dreams
  of peace and harmony.
They took away my dreams of love
  and made a monster out of me.

My friends all say I've changed somehow
  I'm not the boy they knew.
I know they're right for that boy died
  in a green hell called Pleiku....

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A great warrior he was at only eighteen
During a war that was overseas
Wounded in battle shot in his head
Laid there for hours he was almost dead

A Purple Heart he received for his wounds
No medal in this world could save his mind
Not even over time and In his coffin he laid
Where I placed his purple heart for the last time


Contest Name: Purple
Sponsored by: Kevin Shaw
Date Written: 01/17/2019
Judged N/A...

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Archie Bunker served in Italy during Dubya Dubya Two,

   And was wounded by an enemy gun that was aimed, Oh! so true!

      He won the Purple Heart and was reluctant to talk about his scar, but,

         Meathead found great glee in reminding him that he was shot in the butt!

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
© All Rights Reserved

Placed No. 1 in PDee's "Battle of the Clerihews # 2" Contest - February 2012...

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 To Adorn, adore Him Abba Father. 
                                Be His replication.
 Be who we are meant to be in Him.
        In Him is the fullness of Himself. 
           He’s purpose us for His Glory.
                     We’re His light to shine.

So shine Beloved shine
To be like Him for we are,  Amen

Allowed purposefully in Him
U
R
Loved royal purple heart, again...
Amen


3/20/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024©
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The Last thing I built for my brother was his flag case


My brothers name is all through this book
From the battles he fought overseas
I can no longer read this book
For it brings sadness to me

The purple heart he won for his last battle in Vietnam
He took a bullet to the head and was almost dead
As the years passed by we would talk about the war
We both would cry many tears running down our face

His life was full of misery for these images he couldn’t erase...

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