Baby Soldier Poems

  Tender is the touch 
    of her hands
  as she tucks her baby
    into his crib...

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We'd opened ourselves up to fascist beliefs 
we'd catered to the raw findings of mental angst 
an yet we knew going under cover would somehow...

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SEEDS

Who did you leave under the sea?
Was it a black engineer building dreams?
And a brown baby with shackled hands little feet
An angel in disguise floating...

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A pendulum swings 
Right, left, right, left
A bomb flies out and there is no life left to detect

A pendulum swings 
Left, right, left, right 
A...

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I really didn’t like him
But what the heck
He was a fellow Yorkie
And he had a lot of neck
He played the piano by ear
And that’s just...

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A stiff neck in need of a massage,
I watch her break her back in parts.
Too often saviours feel the most pain,
Too often, their sacrifices lie...

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Be who you want to be, travel to places you want to see,
do what you want to do, it’s our god given right we can...

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Welcome home the family has missed you                        Dad come down now    ...

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Not all the soldiers have returned home,
even the owling wind has a reason to weep;
Cynthia's legs start to shake, she had little sleep,
her dark hair...

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She stares down at the tombstone
Of her son who gave his all
Memories flow down off her cheek,
And silently they fall
She thinks about her helpless baby,
at...

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DPAA Hymn for Fallen Soldiers
by Michael R. Burch

Sound the awesome cannons.
Pin medals to each breast.
Attention, honor guard!
Give them a hero’s rest.

Recite their names to the...

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a baby boy delicate, fragile, delightful
how our hearts hang heavily
          obtuse our thinking
depressed and restless, rejecting
...

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Pro Patria Mori

Missouri volunteers bit bullets, watched
as Santa Ana's baggage washed
their brazen hair, hip deep
in the Rio Grande.
The ancient river moved across the land
Like slow...

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Every soldier who goes off to war,
their only desire is to survive
Get back home to embrace 
their girlfriend or wife
Kiss that baby,
the blessed extension of...

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For yes, I have seen it with my own eyes, I have seen it.

They call it by a name, but from the name you'll never...

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