Nostalgia War Poems

Ohio and Kent State
were far away from Australia.
But like America, the Vietnam war
hung like a noose around
the collective neck of the Nation. 
We were fired...

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Black lives matter. Me too.
Not my president. Give peace a chance.
Luck runs out. I like immigrants. 
Power must be challenged by power. 

Equal and opposite...

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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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Night bloomed into smoky waves
And silent memories
Dance in front of my closed eyes,
Allowing me no rest, no jump into slumber

The lyrics of the song playing...

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Out into the wilderness haunted by ghost town’s ancient bloodstains and lost history scars. 

We wander the dark borderlands between awakening dreams and incandescent seams....

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as the Towers die away 
alone on a beach where thunderheads Roll 
where I stood far from
shards of glass fire, horror, disaster
they televised only elemental...

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all small broken alone
where the shadows roam
a child hides in a dark home
tick tock murmured the clock.
while branches dance
and rattle like brittle bone.
toys scattered around...

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World is dead tonight -
A single burn flame alive-
Just till the sunshine, 
no more hope- Our Sun ain't bright -  
keep alive-Keep alive!

Nostalgia from...

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Spring of 1971, happy laughter
Multi-colored flowers and happy faces
we drive painted vans our parents can afford
We pile in, meeting new friends, some potential lovers
Peppermint breath...

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Remember those days, long ago,
When friends would come to call?
October was a good time, hazy
(Indian summer) anyway, in the fall
After the harvest was in.
The kids...

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If my tears were a river
Would they flow to the sun?
Would they laugh, would they chatter 
And before its course run,
Would they open to an...

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‘Angered seasons have ere now’, creak the bones
 Of the old, ‘laid cities to waste. Now time
Will uproot from our earth the enraged stones
 ...

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V-Veterans
I-Intertwining
E-Emotional
T-Thought’s
N-Numbing
A-As
M-Memories

N-Nagging
O-Over
S-Sleepless
T-Times
A-A
L-Life
G-Going
I-Into
A-Another

Verse: 
Veterans intertwining emotional thought’s numbed as memories, nagging over sleepless times a life going into another.

V-Vietnam war created a brotherhood between warriors,
I-intertwining their minds...

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I come from a family of fishermen
Mitchel 300 open faced reels
size 6 hooks 10Lb monofilament line
colorful bobbers and lures-
Dreaming of Big mouth bass 
and golden...

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Yes death was an awakening 
We did not realize we carried it with us
Until our smiles were wiped clean
And the laughter had stopped

It did not...

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