ENCOUNTER WITH GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON
...War is endless
The Winters harsh
Soldiers are dying
Food and Water scarcity
How much longer are the Solders to bare
Freedom and opposition take time and endurance
The Solders are embattled in t...
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Categories:
solders, america, anxiety, care, character,
Form: Free verse
True Christmas Miracle
...True Christmas Miracle
Huddled in muddy trenches, the soldiers heard an eerie sound.
Troops were English, French & Belgians, and as they looked around,
The sound was coming from the German enem...
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Categories:
solders, miracle,
Form: Rhyme
Illumination Street
...I have been traveling for more than a hundred and twenty days searching for the special lights that keep popping up in my nightly dreams and the beam that passes through the skies when the visitors w...
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Categories:
solders, america, best friend, business,
Form: Narrative
ALEXANDER THE GREAT
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Alexander The Great was born in Macedonia in 356 BC, led to believe
From a boy by Olympias his mother, and to conceive
He was born of the gods, legend inferred he was the son of Zeus,
Ruler of...
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Categories:
solders, horse,
Form: Narrative
After Fifty Years
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You won't kill the spider that scurries
across the floor of our living room,
but you once killed solders at the Chosin.
You called them gooks, then,
now you know each was only a man
masked...
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Categories:
solders, war,
Form: Free verse
Full version - A True Christmas Miracle
...True Christmas Miracle True Story Full version written by Wendy Horder. 2020
Huddled in muddy trenches, the soldiers heard an eerie sound.
Troops were English, French & Belgians, and as they ...
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Categories:
solders, war,
Form: Rhyme
True Christmas Miracle- Abridged Version
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It was the twenty fourth of December nineteen fourteen.
Troops were English, French & Belgians, a bloody war was the scene.
A sound was coming from the German enemy line.
German soldiers were ap...
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Categories:
solders, war,
Form: Rhyme
Pens and Swords
...We who spangle wet eyes, salute proudly
our unflinching eyebrows.
We are the rubber band of rubber soldiers;
we who bundle the truth up-tight,
we war poets that never served
demand respect.
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Categories:
solders, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Heavens Are a Blaze
...GODS WITHDRAW FROM OUR WORLD
OF TAINTED VISION WINGS FROM MACHINES FAN FIRES MARCH DEAD SOLDERS FROM WARS LONG
PAST AND FUTURES WAITING TO BE BORN
METALLIC WINGS OF FALLEN ANGELS EXPAND FORTH TO H...
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Categories:
solders, adventure, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form: Free verse
War and the Middle East 2
...People are separated from good food,
Babies delayed reunion with mother’s breasts;
The innocent begin to ape the crude,
Killer attacks a fresh retest of previous bomb tests.
Gravediggers maximi...
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Categories:
solders, conflict, death, environment, international,
Form: Rhyme
Dead, Demented Yet Presides
...Over two hundred million people sleeps and wake without a leader,
A cloned effigy in a rock called "Aso"
too old to lead or long dead to be,
demented or dead, they cannot tell,
old age ha...
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Categories:
solders, africa, corruption, image, life,
Form: Burlesque
Foot Locker
...how long
is a foot locker
and what
do they keep in it?
foot lockers
foot solders
foot long hotdogs
footballs
what is the obsession
are they politically correct
or are they just a foot fe...
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Categories:
solders, 7th grade, africa, baby,
Form: Free verse
Cluffia Del Too
...THEY HAD ALOT TO TALK ABOUT
THEY FOUND A GROUP FROM THE
UPPER- VALLEY ON THE EDGE OF THE SETTLMENT
IT BOTHERED SOME
KNOWING THAT sTAMBLE mEANEST WAS AMONG THOSE SPOTTED.
STAMBLE HAD FATHER A CHI...
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Categories:
solders, america, analogy, anti bullying,
Form: Chastushka
Shot In the Dark
...A heart felt prayer with four chambers alights on a maiden voyage
Meets valves and percussion awaits tenderly to be tuned into harmony
Passion where had been void and stagnation and pulse bee...
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Categories:
solders, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Happy Holiday -- Happy Memorial Day
...Mister Everett Wheeler Cartwright came from Burlington Vermont
All the way to Massachusetts---quite a healthy jaunt
Didn't really understand the cause the Union fought so hard for
Freedom from K...
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Categories:
solders, death, freedom, grief, remembrance
Form: Rhyme
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