Short Soldiered Poems

Hurricane is a battalion of ghosts
Soldiered by retired women of war
The Amazons and the Catherines
To subjugate the great America...

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When living all alone 
A house is not a home 
Just empty rooms where memories remain. 
The one you love has gone 
Still you soldiered on 
Believing someday you'll meet again. 

As time passes by 
You look towards the sky 
Searching for an answer to your prayer.
Praying the one you love 
Is there with God above 
Safely in his love and tender care....

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So words become; the order of the day
and order of the day becomes
the soldiered meaning of all work and play,
the ever present, beating drums.

Then words become; the lure of the lie
and liars lure every son
with shadows of gold 'til they all but die,
to retire, to be, to be done.

And then, once again; the words become
the order of every day
to sleep, to awake, to be dead and done,
'til all words fly, ever away.
  ~TH~...

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There is no pain
that is unaccompanied
by light blinding
or translucent like seeing
the sun through a flame or another's petite morte
as you climax,
 
and heap in rubbled bodies,
others cast in panoptic stone
by the suffocating beauty of the soldiered
rose-blossoms.
They cry, cry out in ineffable joy at the sky
or lips fall heavy to the dust
as they climax,
 
and entwined in fervent bodies
we all come to know what makes us bare another
sadness swaddled in marble arms....

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