War Sonnet Poems

So stubborn we disagree frequently
leading to the hard question ‘Why bother?’ 
Pressing forward is not always easy,
it takes so much work to stay together.

Red roses...

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For soldiers who died in the service of
my nation, there was made a holiday -
a time to show them remembrance and love
strewing flowers on graves...

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Tonight, I won’t write anything at all…
I’m throwing in my quill,—who am I fooling?—
I’m throwing in my keyboard, overruling
my instinct for seriousness,—o how small

and earnestly...

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Planting my flag atop my sonnet’s peak
and outward gazing at the vales below,
I hear the rambling rivers, feel the faux
flow and fumble of their groping...

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How fortunate that I, correctly versed,
knew hand-grenades are passive. At their worst,
they maim and kill. But this is interspersed
with usefulness: defenders have no thirst
for carnage....

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The love that knows no boundary set by clan;
The clans that know no love except for war;
The flower that dares to bloom, but never can;
This...

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Normandy

For man to set alight his earthly pyre 
was destined from the capture of the spark.
T’was mere survival harnessing its fire
to lift his primal world...

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someday we're not going to ,
admire the curvy roads,
we will be admired in our straight graves.
someday  the melodious sounds of birds will fade away
we...

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If a lip could weave its own refrain, 
It would drape itself; longing for delight, 
A fleet strumming; a pair, in soothing rain, 
World's lightening...

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“Doing the little things can make a big difference.”-Yogi Berra
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Sworn together by my troth my May bride
  when joined were glad hearts on eternal date -
Rome did not fall nor the planets collide
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Event: Anglo-Boer War 1899–1902—Measles epidemic in the concentration camps.
In the voice of: Sannie Botha (a survivor).

Jan’s cough kept me awake all through the night.
The children...

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She lawyered up when he walked in the room
And he watched her smile fade into the past.
Look at them now, the former Bride and Groom.
His...

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There are colors that please the eyes:
Rainbows, sunsets, and a sunrise
On psychedelic, I can't gaze
Without recalling careless days.

Ponytails, psychedelic shirts
Flower girls in long, faded skirts
Hippies...

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Twilight arrived before we could prepare.
The watch fires were cold. Not properly set.
Our adversaries we knew were aware.
But night would fall soon… no time to...

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