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Tracers Poems - Poems about Tracers

Spinning
...Spinning out of control... Like a child, Never feeling... Dizzy Cant see... Through the fog Gears & Cogs Turning... Broken... record Screaming Unheard Time... Not enough The road ahead i......

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Categories: tracers, anxiety, depression, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
Alone on the Mountain
...The desolate perfection of solitude. The shiver of recognition that there is only one being on the mountain, and that’s you. The pine trees watch, the boulders brood, but there is no one there. The s......

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Categories: tracers, environment, loneliness, lonely, nature,
Form: Prose Poetry



A Poem - Viet Nam
...A Poem [ Viet Nam] By Patrick Kelly The last minutes of evening yields to the moon’s shadowed night, giving me a few moments to nibble the last of my “Band O......

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Categories: tracers, war,
Form: Prose
Mink's Manifesto 1
...All over pure and white, all over plain and bright, we're inborn peace embracers, true tranquility tracers. All the time abstaining from vileness, violence and violation, we've lived our self-disc......

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Categories: tracers, animal, cry, philosophy,
Form: Burlesque
The Lone Veteran
...Visions unendurable Thoughts not erasable Tracers of red Running through my heard Yellow smoke for the dust off Brings tears Death and destruction Memories of loss Haunting images Ghosts......

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Categories: tracers, veterans day, war,
Form: Free verse



Auburn Haired Beauty
...Crouching down, I'm foxhole bound, crawling forward I seen it, its around. I ducked my head, while covering one eye, as soon as the enemies flare lit up the night sky. Machine gun bullets quickly......

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Categories: tracers, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Vietnam Was Fifty Years Ago
...Vietnam was Fifty Years Ago By Franklin Price 8/30/2018 Vietnam was fifty years ago Around the world across the sea God went with me on tour Now it's just a memory The Air Force was my ser......

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Categories: tracers, memory, military, war,
Form: Rhyme
Tasseled Dreams
...Tasseled Dreams The thought of the future we will never have was pollinating foul fuzzy particles in the air, slowly following the wake of all those tasseled dreams I held onto to for far too ......

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Categories: tracers, desire, future, inspirational love,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Hot Lz At Night
...A HOT LZ AT NIGHT Rotors swimming in the air, my feet towards the skids; flying fast in darkness. Pack tight against my body, one hand for the bird, one hand for the rifle. Tracers lazi......

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Categories: tracers, anxiety, conflict, dark, fear,
Form: Free verse
Fear
...Fear A dark night and all seems well When out of nowhere, the bright burst This stirs so much to tell People running to the berm Rifles firing, mortars thumping and people screaming I go......

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Categories: tracers, anger, anxiety, care, confusion,
Form: Lyric
The Ghosts Behind the Graves On Omaha Beach
...They were young then, now they would be old men looking across an empty beach, the sun at their back; for many this would be their last day to grow old; dead in the water; dying on the sand of Omaha ......

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Categories: tracers, death, dedication, hero, history,
Form: Narrative
This Heady Weight of Others
...spring melts into summer’s light proving wrong that still despair, chilled in winter’s heart, has corroded to the marrow for even poppies bloom in broken fields and shell holes bones blankete......

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Categories: tracers, memory, war,
Form: Prose Poetry
Cain
...I was told those who care less suffer less I believed I was doing this for you Pretending not to care Not when we shot those arty rounds Not when we threw chemicals at you Not as I rejoiced at......

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Categories: tracers, conflict, emotions, feelings, grief,
Form: Free verse
Black Brewries Braveness
...BLACK BREWRIES BRAVENESS Black brewries braveness In ink incorporative individualism Those Thinny tracers ticking Time Be-little black braveness baselessly Mirror my motion moves momentously ......

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Categories: tracers, africa, age, america, art,
Form: Alliteration
Tempus Igne
...time distortions of memory tricks played out of things thought but not old photos tell stranger tales of two dimensional places of younger eyes and tender faces 8mm and slideshows o......

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Categories: tracers, memory,
Form: Free verse

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