Soldier War Poems

I couldn't hear a word of what he's got to say no more
As there was this war coming about in my head
Soldiers against soldiers
Men against...

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When December hit on that one beautiful Sunday it snowed.
Children were quite perplexed , adults too seemed excited.
It was the day marked in the calendar...

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What?

You think you’re f’king right?

You think that flag you’re fighting for makes this  f’king tight?

He’s dying.

He’s not more than a f’king child.

And yes I’m...

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Looking cool 
Wearing blue 
Fly through the air 
Wingman as their pair 
Patrolling the skies 
Ready to encounter bogey lies 
Like eagles they soar
On this...

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Sand and surf of Oahu.
Boogie boards and kids.
Feeling breathlessly safe.
Surrounded by friends -
strangers-in-arms safe.

Elsewhere in time and space
the beaches of Normandy
tell a different tale. Holding
their...

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You remember the mud blood and mosquitos
And the Agent Orange brought back as a memento
In your jungle greens at Vung Tau
Nui Dat  memories won’t...

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roman times meant...
roam'n soldiers
conquered villages...

by killing the men and
fathering a...
next generation of

soldier-sons to sacrifice...
themselves for
sake of the empire...

first the father
and then the son...
became wholly ghost


stans...

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Cesspit 
The  shovelling soldiers are sent off to war
To dig latrines so their soldier brethren can 
Not in peace but to empty their guts...

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Olena Rudenko met Pavlo Lavinski whilst at Kyiv University 
Pavlo told all his friends that she's definitely the girl for me
They got on well then...

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Violent swaths of death, 
      a ghastly sight.
Blood-soaked soil, a 
      canvas of blight.
Screams of...

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I was a soldier in my time.
I was there by choice
I think that gives me the right
To exercise my voice. 

We don’t kill enough Politicians
When...

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By the roadside sat two men
One a soldier and the other a poet
One a warrior among men, 
The other a warrior of the pen
One sculpted...

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this is a story...

of courage
and heroism.
after agonizing months
in captivity, withstanding
the churning maelstrom
of unspeakable horrors
day in, day out;
frequently subjected 
to torture, mockery,
psychological warfare, etc,
the long-suffering prisoners...

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True story, my uncle was a famous safe cracker
Before becoming a soldier in World War I
Known to police in New York City for robbery
The army...

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this soldier took those rounds so they could save

their fellow conscripts from their early grave

how ghastly tannic, tastes such horrid truth

though warm as blood, or...

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