Best Afghanistan Poems

Dear Carolyn:
Another letter from another tour
In this place in the sand they call Helmand
This will be my last, for you can be sure
To never look back on these Afghan lands
 
          Dear James:
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Here in violence and in beauty, living under the same moon
The beauty is so ancient, but the present violence here consumes
On one hand Afghanistan is all that it appears
Insurgents here are so deadly; through the land they spread fear
But a turn of that coin, would...

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Under her burqa
there is a secret she keeps
a red push-up bra...

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They were able to see the sun at last, to look
all around, finally breathe without burqas
     begin a new chapter.
Their words held more confidence.
Is respect too large a word, perhaps not when
     whispered with laughter.

Wearing smiles and...

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I feel like Afghanistan
All the friends who helped me through my depression 
Have left
I want to leave this body I call home
Rather than wage war with my demons 
Strong and mighty
Smiling is equivalent to holding a plane at Kabul. 
I fly for a minute 
And...

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 Two Decades In Afghanistan
Haiku
By: Miracle Man
8-28-2021

In call to duty,
Many gave some, some gave all.
Mission accomplished.
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Abandoned people of Afghanistan -
what can most people do? What can we say
since after all these years when war began.
Your liberty has now been yanked away.

In shock the world looks on with fear for you,
abandoned people of Afghanistan.
Though some escaped, the number is too few
of...

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Story of Afghanistan

The barren land of my birthplace
Green at times but screening a rocky face
Known for thousands of years for its warrior race
Let me tell you the truth,
No one really wanted this “space”.

Up until two lions began prying around
Initially, just fooling around
Afterwards, casting off their...

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Afghanistan, Afghanistan,
you can't win a war in Afghanistan
ask the Russians and A Mer I Cans,
if they can't do it, than no-one can

Watch out!....The War in Afghanistan


Afghanistan, Afghanistan,
full of Al-Qaeda and Taliban
opium poppies throughout the land,
a big paycheck for Afghanistan,

Watch out!... for The War in Afghanistan.

In...

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ideals to inspire soldiers
    when 9/11 spewing black clouds meant a 
                              ...

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Our story begins with this little riddle.
A man and a wolf set out on a journey with a head 
of cabbage and his goat
But when they get to a river's edge, he can only take one at 
a time on a very small float.
So pay...

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Given as a gift from Germany to Kabul zoo in Afghanistan 
No fields to run in - just a miserable enclosed barren land
 
You were blessed with a beautiful lioness partner, Chucha
She must have made you feel no less than a majestic Shah 
 
You...

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Mother, I have seen, where the world has been...
Mother, I have I have seen it clean.

The dirt and muck,
Of those who monger war.
The broken arms of Justice,
In the realm of the nether and underworlds.

The Earth has broken, and monsters,
Have crept out of Her heart.
Fear and...

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We had a desert mission
Just north of us in Zarghun Shahr
But little did we know that day
We wouldn’t get that far.
We did not doubt the intel
That led us up the road of dust;
an IED exploded,
in up armor we trust.
 
To check if there were wounded,
The...

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Just how far is the train of freedom from the discriminated son?
Just how far is the train of freedom from the black homeless child?
Just how far is the train of freedom from the disabled poet?
And just how far are the winds of change from a...

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