Girl Soldier Poems

The people at the terminal,
patted him on the back and cheered.
They said welcome back home soldier,
and then they quickly disappeared.

They pushed and shoved their way...

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The first 'real' poem I wrote
shook me to the core.
I say I wrote it but really
I think I was channelling it.

I was a fifteen year-old...

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A Soldier That Lost His All

Despite his means, despite his plight
He rendered help to those in need,
No place he had fixed for each night
His life...

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Olena Rudenko met Pavlo Lavinski whilst at Kyiv University 
Pavlo told all his friends that she's definitely the girl for me
They got on well then...

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Early winter morning remembering
From the soft warm depths 
Of an old man’s bed:
Walking through dark streets
Shivering with cold,  thinking of
The soft warm bed she’d...

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A misfit among misfits 
Away from family and friends
Wondering was I wrong and
Is this how the adventure ends.
Had I chosen the wrong course 
Leaving my...

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This,
This is who I am.
A soldier at heart, a warrior Queen.
A gentle
But strong
Soul just beneath.
Bruised and bloodied
Back from the war-
But you’ll never see me dying...

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I race toward my workspace, now battle station
Code Zebra, ASAP, batten down the hatches!
Ka-boom!  Boom!  Boom!  A trance-like sensation
Shipmates scramble for smokes...

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In Silence
The English ex SAS Special Forces member went to the Ukraine to fight. He travelled light and took just a small back pack and...

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For you we sacrificed everything
our property, our family
our friends and neighbours
and our own lives
thinking you will be our
saviour. 
At the most difficult time
of our life...

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After the Sunday service, searching back to her
For a date. He will soon be walking back to her.

Bottle rockets popping over the Sacre Coeur.
She suddenly...

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It was a glorious summer day and I woke up with the lark
Got my wheelchair ready and then headed to the park
I noticed a girl...

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Arlington

Row upon row
as if grown from the green carpet
they stand starkly white at attention.
Mute sentinels in the drenching sunlight.

Although rooted and still,
in martial regiments, they...

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

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Joe
    Arrives
    Home from war,
    His folks and friends
    Waiting to greet their...

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