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Open Poetry #8

Soldier ( repost for book submission)

OLIAS
Senior Member

since 2000-06-20

Posts 1090
Pearl city Iowa

0 posted 2000-06-21 08:37 AM

Soldier

A fresh faced boy of seventeen,
I kissed her cheek through railway steam,
A velvet kiss that stayed with me,
On carrion wings to Tripoli,
And Anzio, but part of me,
Fell innocent at Normandy

~*~

Till cowering in some shell shocked hole,
With sightless eyes and hollow soul,
I racked my brain to see her face,
But gone was she, and home ....replaced,
With travesties of human flesh,
Limbless, ragged wraiths of death,
The horror and futility,
Of all I am, revealed to me,
The harshest casualty of war,
To forget the one I'm fighting for.

Olias

[This message has been edited by OLIAS (edited 06-21-2000).]

Poet deVine

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since 1999-05-26

Posts 22612
Hurricane Alley

1 posted 2000-06-21 11:25 AM

Olias, you need to edit this and click on the submit box under your user name!! Thanks.

Jeremiah Johnson
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since 2000-06-08

Posts 1223
Brooksville, Fl, U.S

2 posted 2000-06-21 02:18 PM

this is great i really like it i voted for it just to let you know keep up the good work.

I'm a dying romantic and when i can no longer write i can no longer live -Jeremiah Johnson-

Poet deVine

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Hurricane Alley

3 posted 2000-06-21 03:06 PM

Thank you!

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