Solders Poems

Premium MemberENCOUNTER 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

Premium MemberTrue 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

Premium MemberALEXANDER 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

Premium MemberAfter 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


Premium MemberFull 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

Premium MemberTrue 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

Premium MemberDead, 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

Premium MemberFoot 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

Premium MemberShot 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

Premium MemberHappy 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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