Soldier Wall Poems

Reflections on a Wall

From the valley floor
A stone arises,
Straight walls of polished blackness,
In between rolling, grassy knolls
Hidden in their cleft –
Arms open wide,
Welcoming pilgrims
Who in...

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Screaming red, green with blotchy blue,
What it says I have not a clue,
Imagination! call it art,
If you have some then get a start!
Is it woman...

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If the writing's on the wall you know who wrote it
If something needed to be said, you know who spoke it
If something needed to be...

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The Wall - Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Here is the silence of death.
Two acres of cherished names, 1959 to 1975,
Moore, Johnson, Lopez, Jones……
stare back at your reflection...

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On the Wall
  a soldier's lament

Amid the dark of night when drunks 
Cease their raucous noise 
Murky dews come once again 
Upon the wall...

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Just Reach out and Touch a Name ,
As You Walk Slowly By...
Did You Have a Strange Sensation,
Did You Wonder...How Did He Die?

You Can Feel it...

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The black wall reflected my white-washed skin 
and disheveled jacket, above the chattering din...
Loosly lopsided glasses hang limply on my face,
Cold, dark, black, they somehow...

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the whispering voices
laid down the arms on the skull of the leader,
father of pain, then asked the guns to fire
a last volley towards home

targeting the...

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One more day older
another burden to shoulder
felling like an innocent soldier
not aware of the battle until its upon my door steps
 The net has grounded...

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There hangs the painting on a once vacant wall
Unmoved and unnoticed by any single man
Painted by someone who died in a short span  ...

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