Children War Poems

Never spoke
About the things
I can do or would do 
Always told you
About what I've done
Some right and some wrong.

I never let my flaws 
Weigh me...

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In the cup
Of my hands,
I caught
Cool raindrops;
Blowing breath
Into warm palms,
I watered fields of lilies
And quenched thirsting doves:-

An awakening smile
Quickly frowned
At the sound
Of loud, bursting bombs
And...

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In the summer heat of '47's cry,
A line was drawn beneath the sky.
Not ink, but blood, not words, but flame—
Two nations born, but none the...

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(The Hollow City Cycle include:
The Hollow City
I Remember You -- the city speaks
Last One Left)

You left me when the lights flickered
and the water turned bitter.
When...

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“When the Screens Went Dark”

They said the clocks had stopped at thirteen,
but we remembered twelve.
Somewhere in the cracks between slogans,
truth lingered like a forbidden song.

The...

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children in backyard
play cowboys and indians
learning rules of war



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Posted on April 7, 2025...

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Have you seen, with no word,
The immense, cold voids
,among the slender, patient buds,
Received hollow seeds?

Have you beheld the earth
Lay the masks of dreams upon itself,
And...

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A Soldiers Dream 
I bow my head down in shame as my tears fall down like drops of rain . 
I couldn't save my fellow...

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In battle little boys frantic
Shared their quotes with the Atlantic
So we can all note
About death they’d gloat
And Signal decay gigantic...

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today, 
thinking time
   flowing…
  no peace,
children dying
    in war…
    victims,
all those dying
    in...

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Reflections of the Past, Visions of the Future

You have paid the ultimate price,
And I, made the greatest sacrifice.
When the time came
You answered the call
And gave...

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march weeps for humanity

i drew a sketch of march
number three on my calendar
shaded orange and brown leaves
and freedom, 
walking away like a dejected soldier
me, with...

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God, I have a prayer for you today.
It’s just from me, but please hear what I have to say.

Millions are being abandoned, starved and soon...

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The wild wind plays its part.
Orchids on my Lord's yard
Blown and thrown apart.
They were meant to fall?
Before coming of age?
The suspects were to be summoned...

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In the dim-lit dusk of a shattered world,
where shadows gather but souls do not meet,
I wandered—a hollow echo of Virgil’s path—
between the ruins of ambition...

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