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The children play with the toy soldiers,
Battling for candy and toys.
They throw around the toy soldiers,
Adding their own...
Your ears are tour and your face all mashed.
The stripes you wear they show the time.
You set up high and collect the dust,...
Knock! Knock! Someone is at the door-
But I am too scared to answer it
Thump. Thump.
I can do this, I just have to open the...
Click. Bang! Clunk. Boom!
There are the sounds of World War 1
As the giant bombs loom
The sounds of crying mothers for their...
Fresh flesh bleeds upon the ancient grounds of history
Flesh that isn't our own
Those chunks of human life belong to our...
They protect us night and day,
and they still do up to today.
I see them risk their lives for us.
They are people that I can...
We are merely two mice, two out of millions.
Amongst thousands of cats, they are the villains.
They have taken you from me,...
Everything seems lost
I thought I was on the right path
Everything was falling into place
Then my life was flipped upside...
The crack of dawn, a brand new day
Uncertain of the future, but facing it anyway
The warrior dons his gear and walks outside...
It’s taking all I’ve got,
To untie our knot,
All I can smell is the beer on your breath,
The wine spilled on her dress.
All...
I once saw a veteran, coming down from his truck to his wheelchair, stumble out of his door.
On the hot parking lot ground,...
I am the man who killed Jim Crow.
We Were separate but equal./
Armed with education and soul,
A nation free as an eagle./
I...
Depleted and wounded empire
Again, on the path of resurgence curve
After spree of free fall for long time.
Nostalgia of past...
I know the difference between a hero,
And being a complete zero.
Unnoticed is how you lived,
You had so much to give.
You...
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To all our soldiers
Thank you for long sleepless nights
Spent in far off lands
Or closer to home
But always protecting us...
You have the strength of a soldier and the willingness to fight.
You have the strength that will carry you far through...
I remember how we use to walk, down this old torn street
Tipping our hats to the “Passer-bys” and all the ladies we would...
I love our freedom,
The pride that we carry,
Most don't even know,
Why our lives aren't scary.
Soldiers and Military men,...
The Red White and Blue.
The Flag that flies high and proud.
The Freedom that does not...
We cry when you leave
We cry when you return
You see so many tears through out your journey
You see other's tears
and your...
I don’t believe in love at first sight
Matter of fact when I saw you I hated you
All the people you disposed of as if it was...
Hi all its been a while I’ve not been around since the last time i was around that day i was lowered into the ground. I’m...
I salute you, dear veteran!
Long have you fought for our country.
You’ve been through so much, yet we take you for granted....
It started with a question and ended in an “I do.”
The memories are always there. The love, the laughs, the goose bumps....
Honor,
Duty,
You fight for flag and freedom.
You fight for honor, and you fight for each other.
You feel it’s a duty,...
I watched the flag pass by one day, it slithered in the wind. A young soldier saluted it, and stood at ease. Like a red rose...
Red, White, and Blue is carried off a plane
A man of bravery and courage died without shame
Six fellow comrades bring him...
Tick tock tick tockMy mind races with crazy thoughtsAs my mother sleeps dying on her death bed....Tick tock,' tick tock I...
Graceful she is, winking at my every thought.
Sheltered by her shadow, she comforts me.
Her reassuring faces,
Her beam of...
Spying Death,
He moves forward.
Wating for his time,
With welcoming arms.
He continues.
With every step,
A louder breath....
A Soldier is a faithful friend,
willinging to faith for his or her land.
You lended your feet,you lended your hands,
you...
It's a dangerous journey,A bold career.
It takes courage and honorWith the absence of fear.
Every day is a struggle.Every...
America: Red, White, and Blue.
Soldiers: They've protected me and you.
Someone of whom we should all be proud.
Someone who...
We are all aware of the war that controls a soldier chest. The fear of pulling the trigger on an unknown enemy whose...
Soldier Coming Home
I once loved a man in Uniform and had to let him go.I prayed that he would be okay and come back home....
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and around
and people clown
the new life i found
is sucess bound
i had to fight
day and...
Regret is something you feel from experience
It burns through my core from thoughts of the war
I cant take the memories that...
A yellow cab pulled up to my neighbor’s westward facing house.
From my window, I saw the driver step hesitantly out of his...
Stamped Denied.By: Fabiola Rios
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YOU ERASE THAT YOU ACQUIRED A SLAP IN BYGONS DAYS,YOU LOOK INTO THE MIRROR, YOU AND WEEP LIKE A BABY ,WERE YOU NOT THE ONE...
I walked through the door,
My eyes couldn't comprehend,
The shadow of the person I saw.
There lies a friend of a friend,
A...
There’s nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, but when the night falls I have to fight
Being overseas did this to me, always on...
I signed my life away to see the world
I wanted to look in every corner
To cross the seas and scour distant lands
Venturing...
I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag of The United States of America…
He says his pledge each day
He rises for colors each...
A glimpse of the hot sky above
The vibrating sun beats down its blistering drum
It's melody scares it's creations below
and...
You risk your lives day and night
So the US of A can sleep safe at night Busting your ass all year round
To keep this nation...
Every night I lay awake,
Wishing that I could move to Australia.
The back of my neck would have a permanent burn
from...
I wake up to the history channel
illuminating morning silhouettes,
Grandpa in his tattered cotton flannel,
eyes fixed on the...
He might be just a photograph,
but I know he's more than that despite
what people say.
His love and words are stronger than...
Revenge
It was 1940-something in a war-torn land,
Young men scattered across the globe, each longing for the end.
Fighters...
There it is, in their eyes
When they look up into the once torn skies
They see what we hope to never see
Lurking in shadows...
Roses are red violets are blue
I’m in Afghanistan where are... Boom!!!
Wake up Young get to the truck get on your gun
Cause...
We're goin' out to war, they say,
To fight the Vietcong.
We're goin out to die today
So we can get along.
We're goin' out...
My dear little flower,
Bloom, keep on blooming,
And never stop.
For the rain will flood.
For the wind will break.
For the...
My breath, it stops, lungs constrict
a world at war
tired, hungry, the guns, the march
Austria.
61 miles, carry on, die,...
The boy soldier was taking a seat peacefully below that tree.
As my mom moved towards it, she could see him making a...
The life of a soldier.
Trillions are said to die each year.
Yet billions of men and women gear up for combat each day....
I see you my friend dreaming,
You seem so distant,
You’re screaming “Don’t Die!”,
Friend I see you sleeping,
Yelling “Run...
It’s hard for me to fathom that this still, quiet town
was once my home. No home now, not the
clean sidewalks, clipped...
You’re never forgotten
For we can remember -
Your courage and sacrifice
So that others can live -
With safety and without...
No parades came around when we arrived in America
Not for our group anyway
The only welcome was from a place far away from...
Fight, survive
Be strong.
That’s all you can say
Stay strong.
Be confident.
Role with the punches.
You have one chance
To...
Breathe.
Yes, breathe.
Just stop,
lets breathe.
Lets feel and heal
All of this is unreal.
Lets go
Its hard I know.
But if we...
As just a boy you made your decision to become a man,
you thought long and hard and didn't take a thing for granted
it was...
Freedom is taken for granted
That freedom is just a gift with no costs
But freedom isn’t free
Our true heroes
Wear dog tags...
The first time I could feel it;
not just sense it,
or see it,
but feel it.
Coursing through my veins like a virus...
You come and you go
Im happy then misserable
When will this end?
You confert me and then worry me
I feel safe when you...
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Life in the battle was never easy
But life at home wasn't either
Physically and emotionally wounded
We were forced to adapt...
yes that real
even when they pull the trigger aint going to stop one man
see even though we want a better society
how can...
I prayed as I saw my comrades bodies littering the ground.
Slowly I walked the roads of my life
and visited each terrible...
Why War?
I heard a thousand people pass me by,
While watching the trains rumble,
Bringing heroes back from the fight,
Why...
There are moments in life,
We want to relive twice.
And then there are experiences
where all we feel is weariness.
There...
We all have been stuck the mud once or twice.
we say we cant find away but its always there.
Welcome home.
Your not alone....
Cold
Drained
Unpleasant
Great Depression
Old as well as intelligent
Blinded by the world around him
Lost everyone and...
(So many years in this,
Everyday I’ve lived to kill
But when one of my brothers fall
Another war has begun.
I don’t know how...
If death was a hole in the ground, the end of things to come.
If death sent you nowhere, only chose to take you from
If I...
I wish you had told me sooner
That you would be leaving me
I know you have your duties but
I
Your daughter
Deserved a say in...
When he was a small boy,
He dreamped of being a hero of war,
On the battle field to save every one,
In the hot desert sun...
As I looked into his eyes
I was just a child, his child
He was JUST my daddy.
My daddy that was in glossy pictures...
It binds me,
Stretches,
As time moves on.
It lingers,
Expands,
As we drift apart.
It is an invisable,
Connection,
Between...
Expendable, that is the fate of every Soldier,
Regardless of medals and scares.
Forever being the bold,
Though blind from...
I admire your courage
You protect my freedom
Lined fiercely on a field
Knowing that everyday might be your last
But don't be...
Thank you for your service, your noble sacrifice
because of you, I sleep comfortably at night
the land you've defended is...
To look into a soldier's eyes, the window to their soul. Look out from inside their mind and see horrors never told. You say...
Love me now love me how
I wonder if know the traits of love
I hear selfish desires being filled with my hearts treasures
I...
The war is the worst place to be,
You see things you wish you never seen.
Soldiers are dying everyday,
Because they say it's...
If only I knew what to do with my life and everything else that comes my way
There be no problems, no crossroads, just me in...
I have never seen or been to hell.
But what is there to tell.
All I have ever known.
Is thing I have read are was told.
Is...
Im gonna smile and Im not gonna cry
When the times come with the dreaded goodbyesIt is a strange fact how time flies by
From...
Daddy’s away,
With back to back deployments.
Mama's scared,
Of being alone.
Daddy’s home,
He can fight no longer.
Mama’s...
(poems go here) The things we fight for and believe in;Is what mankind is, The battles we won and the we lost will always...
Fear is near, fear is here.
What do I do? Never go back there?
No, wait! I fell from the horse, I cannot loss, I will be...
Life is freedom, life is choice, or so we're always told.
Life is choosing right from wrong, From being young to being old....
I wish that I ’d wrote this when I was five years old.
When I was a big boy yet small enough to hold.
I held a coloring book...
The veteran
Worthy of respect
With a nation to protect
From the cold, ill dangers
Of the globe
Giving the young boy hope...
the government is watching me
yes they are up on it
a supreme team
shaking my body
no matter how bad ive been in the army...
Song of an Unknown Hero
The war, it seems has waged its toll on me
there is no sound I'd rather hear than quiet peace
but...
Stained
Laying on the cold war floor
I’ve bleed red, white, and blue
For you?
Can this be true?
America
I salute you
I chose...
Who helps us without the thought of praise?
Wait, let me rephrase.
Who helps us in the spite of danger looming close?
Who...
To you an American Soldier,
so brave, considerate, and exceptional too.
This poem here is in great honor to you.
These...
Moles of Misfortune
By Ben Fitzgerald
Darkness and light all at once,
The faces of many and yet few,
But who am I to...
I haven't forgotten.
Alive in my dreams you are,
There, just waiting for me.
My Friends hands welcoming me,
But unable to...
America's flag is red,white,and blue.To America, I'll always be true. I support my Army and Marines.They always make sure,...
He faught.
He was injured.
Not just physically.
He came back.
He wasnt the same.
He was still my father.
He was just an...
Your eyes spoke to me.
So many hellos and so many good-byes.
It only took a single look.
A smile here a smile there,
you...
The tears in my eyes,
Made the world fuzzy and unfamiliar.
But I have to be strong,
For me and mom,
For brother and father....
Sweetheart, I will.
I've done this before.
Gone through this before.
I can pretty much guess the outcome.
You've seen me...
The cringing form.
The venom that flies out of the mouths who know nothing, but pretend to know something.
The whispers of...
Freedom under fire
Americans are cheated
Preserve liberty
Preserve the democracy
The Pursuit of Happiness
As I wave goodbye and walk away the kisses and cuddles from my loved ones still fresh in my mind I set my sights on what...
we are star crossed lovers,torn apart by distanceand the fact that you may nevercome home.i whisper your nameto myselfat...
To protect us,
To serve us,
To let us be free.
Guns and violence.
It's not what he longed for.
He only wished to save the...
The uniform that seperates the heros from the citizens are donned by the many who want to protect what they love, forged by...
Alone, I wait another day,
Wishing you were here to stay.
You left to defend what you know is right,
You're willing to give...
You know that girl you talk about? The one that raises her little sister.
Her mom is fighting in the army.
You know that man...
The people celebrate,
The bells ring loud,
dancing one every street,
what a marvelous crowd.
The politicians jest,...
Someone can think of the end result,
While not knowing how to get there.
We came to fight a war,
Not knowing what it would...
Come home to cuddle me.
Let me drag my fingertips upon your chest
And lay my kisses on your hips.
Touch you lightly when the...
No one ever thinks to ask, they just assume
And my blood boils…into fumes
I can’t take this, wish things were different
But...
You and me, we are free
unlike the people in history .
Patriots and Tories started a war,
there wasn't one like it ever...
Sent away
A plane ride into the land unknown
A new land
with people that don’t look like you, don’t talk like you , don’t...
You sail to Japan
A completely foreign land
With a band
Of brothers
Blue surrounds you
What will you do
Except what they...
You're a thousand miles away from me,
I cant take it , I need you closer to me.
I need you by my side.
I want to gaze into...
Sit and think the things that have come.
All made for naught for there is nothing here,
What left is there to gain if you're...
I will salute !
But I will not shoot !
In war we hear soldiers Roar their last words
And shooting was they last verbs
I will...
dear 1960's:
wish i couldve been there.
inagurated john f kennedy
killed marilyn monroe
martin luther king speech
veitnam...
Who is he who protects our life?
The patriot, whom we often disregard
Why? His honor and love so rife
Living in a world of...
My worry leaves my shoulders
When I know that I am blessed
With such heroic soldiers
Who want only what is best
Giving...
They walk among us unknown,
Despite the courage they have shown,
And we let this pass.
They fought tooth and nail,
To...
Along the river I did sit,
Poised with pen and paper,
Prepared to write the stories,
The atrocities, the monstrosities
That...
I am from the infantry.
From soldiers who have fought to their death.
Through deployments and basic training, they triumph...
We sang to the warriors,
Who were strong when we were not.
We sang to the warriors,
Who were crippled in their cot.
They...
Where you land might not be comfortable
Sometimes the food may not be edible
As your weekend is overextended,
our dream is...
I admire your courage
You protect my freedom
Lined fiercely on a field
Knowing that everyday might be your last
But don't be...
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You are so miserable as they are so keen
To tell you how weak
You are to...
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The bloody and pale souls marched,
not over the blood...
Months of crawling on my bare hands and covered knees for this;
The blood, sweat, and tears I’ve shed,
All for this one very...
A simple note,
Played on worn piano keys
A paint brush,
Painting wet soaked leaves
Note after note,
The music from your...