Not Every Soldier Gets To Die In Battle

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Open Poetry #31

Not Every Soldier Gets To Die In Battle

icebox
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since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

0 posted 2004-02-01 02:09 PM

You always looked good
with sunglasses,
little Summer clothes,
a convertible,
and any random older man with money;
so together,
so in charge,
you had the world in your hands.

The blues can live
in an old man's heart for endless seasons
once they start to take hold of thoughts,
and feelings,
shaping dreams
like faces dancing on ceiling shadows
in candle light.

I wonder at times
at night
if you ever reached the coast
on your journey to pack your life
with all the most delightful bits
of chance's levanter debris,
as if you could make awareness tangible,
and tuck it tight into your pockets
where no one else could see
you needed pride for your accomplishments.

Do you still burn incense to Marx
while pouring cash into your wounds,
and look as beautiful
standing naked in moonlight,
on the temperate edge of some hot spring,
staring wistfully at water strong enough to boil you alive?

This morning,
feeling misty,
I hope somewhere you did survive,
and that life let your swift balloon
finally come to rest on soft and fertile fields,
and that you may have known the peace of growing flowers.

©2004 by icebox

Grover
Senior Member

since 2004-01-27

Posts 1967
London, ON, Canada

1 posted 2004-02-01 02:14 PM

Very impressive... I enjoyed this poem very much! Grover.

Martie

Moderator

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

2 posted 2004-02-01 02:15 PM

icebox

"I hope somewhere you did survive,
and that life let your swift balloon
finally come to rest on soft and fertile fields,
and that you may have known the peace of growing flowers."

Healing a feeling....a good way to start the day. Hugs!

Mistletoe Angel

Member Empyrean

since 2000-12-17

Posts 32816
Portland, Oregon

3 posted 2004-02-01 02:17 PM

(big angel hugs) This is a most beautful and heartfelt write, sweet friend, God Bless You, we are the children of the flowers and I only hope many understand that, this is beautiful, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet friend, thank you for sharing!

May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

"You'll find something that's enough to keep you
But if the bright lights don't receive you
You should turn yourself around and come back home" MB20

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

4 posted 2004-02-01 03:04 PM

.....just had to have one more piece of you before I went to work....

now I'm off to make my dollar and some change

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