Health Soldier Poems

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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We'd awakened to soon reaching. 
for respite keeping PTSD at bay 
while anxiety attacks bicker with 
my Narcolespy my focus remains.
 
steadfast on Traumatic Brain...

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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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many soldiers wounds of the psyche....that bleed another
sacrifice...

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I'm at my stop over,
waiting on my next flight
I've been in my pain all the way over
And I have to wait on to continue through...

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A fire in the kitchen?
I smell of smoke in the hall.
Somebody is very guiltily 
Washing down the wall.
What’s left of the toaster’s
Just a burnt plastic...

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I'm a soldier, a warrior, samurai, viking

I look up to the heavens and I can summon lightning

Me against my illness, I simply cannot fail

If i...

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Nine years he served his country
Then nursed in Mental Health
None of his professions being
Much good for his wealth.
Physical ill health
Brought work to an end
Very little...

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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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Pt I: Pilgrimage
1991

he’d pick ‘his’ path up as it fell
between the dunes toward the wood
and as the trees knew him so well
they’d all bow down...

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The bombing of Pearl Harbour was the turning point for me
That day I enlisted in the army, despite protests from my family
I tried to reassure...

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A Star Shines in Alba’s Sky

Star shines above a frosty mountain where sheep in summer grazed,
Bright shining ones gathered in vast numbers to praise,
Snow fell...

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There is a difference between what is wrong and what is right. 
World War Two was fought by men and women who were prepared
to die...

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Real Men

Bigger than life, 
the man I married, 
is/was everything and more, 
I thought before, 
I said I do. 

He took care of his family,...

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No Joke

Highway 99, 
goes no where… 
I tell you. 
I have been there 
and back. 

You have to go, 
but you can not find it....

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