War Sunshine Poems

A solar halo
Sol Invictus blistering 
Or the cross blazing
Burning for roman bloodshed 
Who in truth was Cain scheming 
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mercury and sunshine
will see you walking around sunset 
thought you are the ghost 
which 
come to frighten up the children 
how on earth do ghost...

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Like fireflies, glistening in the twilight
Filling hearts with the sweetest calm,
Coloring thoughts in peacefulness, so I write
Words reflecting the grace, its tender balm
Breathing joy through...

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Like wounded soldiers they walked down the street, carrying their bullet less guns on their shoulders leaving a war that is not yet over, their...

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I got up to face another day hoping that something positive would come my way but it was the same toxic energy that keeps roaming...

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the daily news droned on and on
    as hope gave way to gloom
  every ray of sunshine doused
   ...

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Nothing happens by chance
We thrive in God’s appointed 
Times and seasons 
All we are and do
Fit perfectly into 
His divine calendar

There is time to be...

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Apparent air in tug-of-war 

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I was once argumentative, though I am not at all proud of the fact,
I was extremely opinionated, expressing my views with little tact.

It is not...

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What softness in silence amidst the cacophony of a spin cycle world war.
Lying next to your glow in sleep's stillness, careful of your bandaged hand.
Watching...

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Letter to My Wife
by Miklos Radnoti
translated by Michael R. Burch

A poem written during the Holocaust in Lager Heidenau, in the mountains above Zagubica, August-September, 1944

Deep...

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A barren land is thirsty for rain
Its dry sands can’t yield any grain
The ground printed with bare footmarks
And a soldier boot prints in their tracks

Famine...

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It's no discussion or debate 
Same energy I receive I reciprocate
I can no longer allow them to contaminate 
Or simply just manipulate 
My life,family and...

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Steel
Hilted
 Arced or straight
 Razor edge with
Point
~
 Sharp
 Weapon
 Of conflict
Reflects sunlight
 Death



Written on 20th March 2019-03-20

For light up the page 3 poetry contest

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Sarah and John, awaiting their firstborn;
	a nurse and soldier, in each other's arms,
in war-time setting, were at times forlorn
	by their romantic joy fused with alarms.

This...

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