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Huan Yi
Member Ascendant

since 2004-10-12

Posts 6688
Waukegan

0 posted 2008-03-26 03:26 PM

.

A helicopter comes in
Over the parameter

There is
A drumming rhythm
To its blades

It drops off supplies

Rations ammunition
Raising dust
Above the foxholes

And leaves
Taking away
Another day
And plastic bags

.

2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

1 posted 2008-03-26 03:30 PM

i enjoyed very much your poem...
yann

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

2 posted 2008-03-26 06:10 PM

a fine, timely and most important 'write!'...

some of us relate only too well to this 'penning!'
...and would have not the means, nor the courage,
even to discuss that 'time and place' EVER...

I NEVER thought to see it all happening again in
my lifetime (especially for even far less 'justifiable'
reasons!)....

applause for this 'slice of reality' impression.

Bonnie j
Senior Member

since 2003-06-27

Posts 1588
Ohio

3 posted 2008-03-26 08:53 PM

I love to play with titles so here are a few.
Drumming Blades
Rations of Life
Memories of The Foxhole
Plastic Bags
Helicopter
Another Day of Hell
Dust and Death
Sounds of War
Just a few I could come up with.
BonBon

Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

4 posted 2008-03-26 09:13 PM

John,

This is a very powerful, and sad poem. It's very well done.

Someones war just seems to go on and on.

Wars passed on from one fool to another, while kids from a poor neighborhood like mine get caught in the middle.

Sick is the word for it.

Someone's making a pile of money on it.

Bobby

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

5 posted 2008-03-26 09:58 PM

This is such a sad reality and you express it well.
Ida

Seoulair
Senior Member

since 2008-03-27

Posts 807
Seoul S.Korea

6 posted 2008-03-27 03:22 AM

The war. The war.

nakdthoughts
Member Laureate

since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

7 posted 2008-03-27 08:18 AM

Spending recent days at a VA hospital complex and talking to so many veterans in the waiting rooms, both young and old, is an experience in itself.

M

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

8 posted 2008-03-27 08:35 AM

sad

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