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Music Soldier Poems

These Music Soldier poems are examples of Soldier poems about Music. These are the best examples of Soldier Music poems written by international poets.

Discography of Silence

What is the point of grandma’s lullaby
if the child nestled in her arms
cannot be soothed?

Or the wail of the bagpipes,
lost as easily as the soldier’s...

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Categories: soldier, imagery, lost, music, philosophy,

Citizen Soldier Band songs in a poem

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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Categories: soldier, december, deep, depression, emotions,

Out of Kilter

One day a piper, with stylish intent,
     Wore a tartan kilt, in full regiment.
     But with far...

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Categories: military, music, soldier, tribute,

Not Quite Gi Blues

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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Categories: soldier, imagination, military, music, nostalgia,

Eurasian Girl, Sussex 1961

A misfit among misfits 
Away from family and friends
Wondering was I wrong and
Is this how the adventure ends.
Had I chosen the wrong course 
Leaving my...

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Categories: soldier, confusion, feelings, joy, loneliness,

Stitch These Painful, Open Wounds

Stitch these painful, open wounds:
fate is something one chooses;
many faces stare and frown...
not an ounce of pity is shown!

I won't ever finish my final score,
I'm...

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Categories: soldier, conflict, integrity, leadership, love,

Welcome Home

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

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Categories: dad, mom, soldier, today,

Death Does Not Discriminate

Death Does Not Discriminate

The plains are now silent, a brief moment in time, and we steal every second we can,     ...

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Categories: soldier, war,

Dancing Soldier

Keep dancing little soldier,
Tap in time to the beat of the music. 
Let the melody fill your soul, 
Starting at the tips of your tiny...

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Categories: soldier, dance,

Lili Marlene

Lili Marlene

In times of war, love can subdue cynical adversaries
(Men separated from their vocation, now filled with hatred)
And quell the beast inside their misdirected hearts,
And...

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Categories: soldier, history, memorial day, remembrance

Brahms Lullaby

The spiral staircase made her high heels sing, the metal tips on her heels dinged on the metal steps. 
The sound reminded John of bullets...

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Categories: conflict, music, soldier, war,

This Blackbird Song

The sound of a clear Blackbird call
Echoed through the trees and over the fields making me stop and fall 

Upon my knees his song followed...

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Categories: soldier, beautiful, beauty, bird, death,

The Question of the Brave

Is this it?
The reason why we are here?

Is this it?
This cost seems so dear

Is this it?
Now the music falls silent

Is this it?
Vivid pictures of loved...

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Categories: soldier, courage, death, fate, military,

The Welcome

THE WELCOME

I got there to the airport so early on that day
And I was so amazed then to see what’s in my way.
A crowd of...

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Categories: heaven, soldier,

A Gunshot Away

Grandfather played the tin whistle
with Paddy on his knee
for his grandson he played 
songs of Ireland
songs that will live on

on Paddy’s tenth birthday
Grandfather gave him...

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Categories: ireland, music, soldier,