War Sonnet Poems

Normandy

   For man to set alight his earthly pyre 
was destined from the capture of the spark,
t’was mere survival harnessing its fire
to lift...

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someday we're not going to ,
admire the curvy roads,
we will be admired in our straight graves.
someday  the melodious sounds of birds will fade away
we...

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If a lip could weave its own refrain, 
It would drape itself; longing for delight, 
A fleet strumming; a pair, in soothing rain, 
World's lightening...

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“Doing the little things can make a big difference.”-Yogi Berra
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Sworn together by my troth my May bride
  when joined were glad hearts on eternal date -
Rome did not fall nor the planets collide
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Event: Anglo-Boer War 1899–1902—Measles epidemic in the concentration camps.
In the voice of: Sannie Botha (a survivor).

Jan’s cough kept me awake all through the night.
The children...

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She lawyered up when he walked in the room
And he watched her smile fade into the past.
Look at them now, the former Bride and Groom.
His...

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There are colors that please the eyes:
Rainbows, sunsets, and a sunrise
On psychedelic, I can't gaze
Without recalling careless days.

Ponytails, psychedelic shirts
Flower girls in long, faded skirts
Hippies...

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Twilight arrived before we could prepare.
The watch fires were cold. Not properly set.
Our adversaries we knew were aware.
But night would fall soon… no time to...

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Right now I’ve still got all this fight in me,
even as I wage war with bulletproof;
I’m ready sucker punch for the knockout;
Enemies try but just...

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So many conflicts, many nations want.
To kill, abundant arms, countries just flaunt.
Talking about wars, a thing they cherish,
it matters less, whether many perish.

On round tables,...

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If it be lunatics rule half this world
And power mad despots tread where they please 
If tyrant’s fists raised, leave no toe uncurled
And civilised nations...

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Intolerance grips our life’s mainstay hard,
guiltless blood flows, civilizations clash,
heart splinters into disposable shard.
In the clutch of stress relationships crash.

Let times change before it explodes...

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~ Such irony Creation would devise
a mind that holds the secrets Hell conceals.
‘Tis blasphemous that man would improvise
a conduit that prophecy reveals.
  ‘Tis but...

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Because peace is more important than winning...

Like arrows shot right through a weary heart
these words in anger pierce the tender flesh. 
This gift of verse,...

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