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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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
...

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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