Mother Soldier Poems

KNOWN JUST TO GOD AND ME
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  Tender is the touch 
    of her hands
  as she tucks her baby
    into his crib...

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   Generals measure the cost of war in human lives
     Soldiers toast its value in the cheapest of dives...

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“ 
Is This a Way to Live”

“The Innocent” 
As warplanes thunder overhead
We rise from our beds
And wonder, 
Is this a way to live?

“The Soldier”
As he...

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   My father, a WW2 vet
   My mother too
     On Veterans Day they first met

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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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DID THE PEOPLE SING

Did the people sing marching to the front
Perhaps just in innocence and camaraderie
Yet unsuspecting the same of their enemy
It was not just...

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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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His father was an Aristocrat
His mother a high class whore
And he attended Public School
As had his ancestors before,
Achieved a First at Oxbridge,
Sword of Honour at...

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Come, my son, my daughter, let’s get killed,
Fighting for our beloved nation…!
They, under bribes, get applications filled,
Do not mind! They get better salary-transaction!
My officers do...

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The bridge between our hearts 
as fine as spiderweb threads
Along it soldiers march 
workers trample, children skip
with balls of light
cows graze, horses gallop

 
Between our...

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No, she mustn't cry out loud,
Every pain she must but hold;
No tear must make its way from the sides,
Of her pained, grieving, red rimmed eyes.

Into...

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THE DEAD CAT WALTZ
 
Tick, tick, tock.
Fleeing the dancing cats.

Oh those strangled cries, the pleas for help.
Where are the sirens to drown them out?
I'm no...

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  "a kid at heart"

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Hotel...  in the Song

I listen to the radio, 
it is turned way down low, 
but it is all that I care to hear, anymore....

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