Loss Soldier Poems

Words are meaningless, now that the boy is gone.
How can he not be here - he was so young and strong.

Time won this game and...

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The Sands of Time are
sinking,
foundation of peace
quaking,
Under the mountains of hatred
Peace finds itself
ransomed;
Human greed is overflowing,
thirst for Sapiens’ blood is growing;
Leaders on a whim are...

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A tumour abated alters and waits.
Pathway incised, a new one it makes.
Spreading and forming, roots growing down.
The moment’s now here, a mighty rebound.

Battle exhausted, the...

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When I met the tall and amiable Vietnam War veteran,
my shyness showed,
yet, my throat dried and tightened when he softly
spoke the words, "The war never...

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War does not determine who is right - only who is left. - Bertrand Russell

It’s a darkness so sad and grim,
Dreams destroyed by the bleakest...

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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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Young and eager to defend
Our country till the very end
Buzzcuts uniforms and nerves
Training that will help them swerve
From the danger they will face
In a far...

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bouncy …

finger curls
dangle like ornaments from her brow,
kissed by a breeze like
the hem of daddy’s flag,
casket-draped,
shaped to mask it in
cold redemption -
contempt for the valor
wasted...

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drip, 
      drip,
      drip...
heartbreak 
      from sad of eyes. 
hushed...

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In my voice I screen in those acquisition visions
Captured those sounds of romancing my heart
Covet sparkled spotted crashed spectacle collisions
Revenant those posture posed unlocked mark

Heart...

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she stood there in a daze
by strangers surrounded
they had given her the folded flag
as the last post sounded
keepsake of a warrior
it had graced his casket...

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words forth coming--...

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Elvis has left the building.
West Berlin, a significant place
Where life was lived at a frantic pace.
Me and Old Elvis together through the night
In those days...

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Four fast friends and I sailed away to war.
Our dreams were fresh, and we owned forever.
On Omaha beach a shell took Trevor.
His sap of Spring...

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The click and the lock.
The cuddle up to the scope.
The power of the thought that now I can kill a man.

The test on my soul.
The...

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