Loss Veterans Day Poems

Unlikely noisy and vibrant mornings
everything was serene, celestial and calm,
so ideal for a spring's afternoon psalm...
when there should have been mourning sounds!

Sunrise had more brilliance...

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Loss
in wars
Fallen soldiers
Of United States
 Army, Navy, Airforce, 
Marines, in their memory 
Brave heroes honored forever
Both men and woman fought for us all 
The red,...

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My flag is not black n white with a blue streak 
My flag is not a field of white stars n scars of machine guns
My...

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Often a country will plough over its dead.
Flowers planted; parks landscaped
over the biographies of the brave.
To read the fallen, to honor the dead and the...

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No dulcet it was
cries of peace amidst gunfire
shells and smoke lingered....

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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 haunting me
Blood on my hands
Unable...

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Shuddering sounds echoed over the battle front
Smoke rose from the cannon’s barrage of fire
Distal vision blunted from the bursting bombs
Cries of pain drowned out from...

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From lands aglow with carnige
To aftermaths of reconstruction
The frozen shock of human failure
Is won with great loss
My peace is won in policy
My peace is an...

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No mind was ever meant to bear
That torment, pain and sorrow.
In that cacophony of hell,
Their lives forged our tomorrow. 

Called to duty, through their service,...

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Brutality

Ambushed outside a village
some of the enemy were killed
their bodies tied to our tracks
to drag back trough the village
there to stay as a warning;
our unit...

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HOME

The family is very excited
happy to see me come home
they know I have changed,
but they have changed as well.

Their eyes are worried wary,
their expressions oddly...

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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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Fields of France are filled with blood-red poppies
Where also bloom the lily-white crosses:
Each buried youth a seed, now bursting forth 
Into a stark white cruciform...

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American Soldier

God Bless you all, American Soldiers. 
For your dedication: to Our Country.
 
For putting your own life first; 
You are even sacrificing; 
Losing your...

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VETERANS’ DAY 2
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS



There’s no coin of the realm to pay for his time
For the innocence stolen from him in his prime
No one can...

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