Happy Soldier Poems

In this mess, we called a country, the destroyers lived among 
Babangida once terrorized us with Khaki, failures affect all,
Ruled as a tyrant forgetting the...

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Sometimes life is a Still Frame and I know others aren't as Broken As Me. I can Pretend My Pain Away but I can't Just...

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Veterans deserve respect
Not ignorance and neglect 
Every day I can not wait
To see a military car plate
I will salute every one
Thanking them for all they've...

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The soldier retires
Seating at home,
Remembering how he fired 
His friends even foes

Friends come to greet
Happy they are 
But sad he's,even the sun hiss
Bloodshed,remembering how it...

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Life lost meaning. She had hated that war since it first begun,
Now the worst thing of all, disbelieving that it had taken her son.

She wore...

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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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Down in the south east of Ukraine they call the Donbas region
Is where the Russians were kept at bay by the Azoz battalion
For three long...

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Veterans deserve respect
Not ignorance and neglect 
Every day I can not wait
To see a military car plate
I will salute every one
Thanking them for all they've...

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I think I need a soldier
To guard me from attack
Think I need a soldier 
With a tight six-pack
Of ciders, ideally apple 
So I may chill...

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Whenever the nation summoned me to hurry for war,
She stood wet-eyed and faded as though already widowed;
Equilibrium of my judgment couldn't find sure score,
Feelings hid...

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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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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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Oh, big brother's home for the holidays-
mom, dad, siblings
with big smiles
race to
him
this
soldier
long time gone
from his loved ones-
and sweetheart waiting around the corner.


February 6, 2021

Contest: Double...

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Sounds of gun shots filled the air,
his comrades lay in the ground writhing in pain...
patches and streams of red blood could be seen around...

He thought...

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