Holiday Soldier Poems

Your blood cries out to us
        beneath a benign grassy grave

     Yours was the...

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Today, we celebrate the men and women 
The men and women who have served our nation. 
Served our nation to keep our freedoms intact 
Keep...

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

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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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SOLDIER OF 9 LIVES

I never went to military school but am a soldier
Life taught me how to fight & now am older,
He schooled me to...

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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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My Umbrella

It was the reason
for everything,
needed, 
that had any value. 

It started with rain, 
on a Sunday morning. 
It moved to the car,
that would not...

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The Song of Silent Rage

The car was not empty. 
There were women, 
there were children,… small children.
None, could hurt anyone…as they were soft and tore...

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Soldier

March off to war, 
protect the ones you love…
and even the ones you do not…
At what cost?

Sweet memories you will not have, 
of all the...

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Some Assembly Required

The house is quiet, 
and the children are asleep. 
They did not want to go, 
but I made them. 

Sugar cookies, candy canes,...

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Halloween's for playing pranks
   Thanksgiving, for giving thanks 

Veteran's Day is in between
   to recall those killed by bombs and tanks

They...

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CHRISTMAS IN THE PLAIN OF REEDS

Three on isolated holiday;
Cambodia on the horizon.
The reeds sway in the wind,
rippling like drifting snow,
their touch a ringing bell.
So close...

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A glowing Yuletide candle light
Is burning very, very bright

For all our soldiers far away
Spending Christmas a soldiers way.

Dreaming of home and holiday cheer,
Wishing that their...

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SOLDIER-BOY

The young soldier-boy, in his travel uniform,
Held his mother tight, on a cold November morn;

Tears, rolled freely, from her red, swollen eyes;
His father looked on...

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