Soldier Stress Poems

I sit on the cliff top
Watching the world go by
Listening to seagulls
Squaking in the sky

hearing waves crashing into the rocks
Wearing flip-flops without socks
Feeling the sun...

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He’s a young old man as he
Shambles down the street
With his thousand yard stare so
His eyes and yours seldom meet.
Some times he’s sober
Sometimes he’s not
Sometimes...

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Sitting in the darkness
Trying to find
Anything missed
Running it through the mind

Twenty five rounds
In a loaded magazine
All lying snugly waiting
Wiped and shining clean
Rifling oiled and checked
Pulled...

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1.Titanium is effective in stopping modern firearm rounds.
2.Titanium deforms under the stresses from the bullet's energy.
3.It depends on metal hardness and the velocity of the...

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The British Empire was built by fate
made rich advanced to stand up straight 
Have knowledge and allies to collaborate 
prevent Europe a Russian satellite state

Hitler...

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Come on boys' sign your name, train them, and send them out to fight. 
Praise them once a year, let 22 die with a red...

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Awol on the aeorta,
I've built a wall around my heart,
Trying to suppress that which is grieving,
But it's still ripping me apart,

The night falls, elevating whispers,
From...

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ATTACK

I can still see their faces
mouths open screaming silent screams
silenced by the loud barking 
of weapons, theirs and ours;
sudden explosions rendering moot
intensity of automatic fire.

They...

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PTSD

My nightmares are violent;
rifle jammed frustratingly dead,
broken stock useless as a club,
only a k-bar knife and free hand
reaching for those darting figures
leaping over my fighting...

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The Soldier's Repose

When the battle was over;
And the gun fire had ceased.
The weary soldier sat;
And prayed for tomorrow's peace.

Brave warrior, weathered and tired;
From all that...

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There was a time in my life
When all seemed to go wrong
There was a sadness in me
And pain was the only air

Heartbroken, mind broken, physical...

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I teach, i fly, i write
I thought, i flew, i broke
I fell in love with paper's note
But the index did not reach its goal

I revise,...

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An American Warrior 
please tell me why if you can
the reason I don’t have a right hand
my right leg is missing as well
all I can...

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Drained to my very heart by our slow-paced arrival, 
          I wander through tasteless decor to...

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Everyone's gone...
There's no one to look up to...not one...
Not one will be kind enough
To look down and attempt to help me...

Everyone's gone...
I'm beneath the debris
There's...

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