Deafening thunder
shell storms asunder
cowers soldier
a night’s shelter
shatters the next
graveyard in its wake
all’s well, mama
in scrawny writing
announces the letter
flickering solace
for pining mother
a world away
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Tag / War poetry
Oh, the fall
Tall, erect, in line
like our soldiers sent to war
except, more alive
Photo: Sunset by the Lake Burly Griffin, Canberra, Australia
Soldier, long gone
I look at you
once bright as dew
now frayed, tearing at the seams
a picture unlike any other it seems
beetle eyes gleaming through the glass
a spectacle for the students in my class
how well your brows curve crookedly
masking shadows of scheming wickedly
though just another memory to many
for your thoughts I’d offer more’n a penny
how you could while away your life
warring others’ battles without a strife
a proud son that faced his mother tall
and answered the motherland’s call
Cars
All lined up to go
as youth army in battle
puppets of the rich
Natural fighter
Residential building near Miami beach
A looming army
faceless, hollow and stony
facing soldier, grass
