by Derek Pattison | Apr 21, 2009 | Poetry
He loved the darkness. And its quiet stillness, When the only sound was the pound of his heart, And the quiet whisper of his breathing. In that dark wilderness of a world Only he was not sleeping As long as he stayed awake All would be well Sleep only brought back the...
by Christine Bryant | Nov 16, 2008 | Poetry
Pity the soldier, broken and afraid Bowed head, his hollow eyes look to the ground He faces death now, lined up on parade His lips are moving but they make no sound. Pity the soldiers in the firing squad Facing today their comrade and a friend They tremble too in...
by Elizabeth Slater Hale | Oct 24, 2008 | Poetry
Why did you wait for the day to break For God’s light to fill the sky Before you placed a blindfold on his head And ordered him to die Did you witness the sheer terror In the eyes of my only son Did you listen to his heartbeat As you loaded up that gun His mind was...
by Kevin M Welsh | Jan 30, 2008 | Poetry
At Thermopylae…twenty four centuries gone…three hundred And more Grecian Spartans shed their blood for their nation As they made their last stand. Sorely betrayed…but They were held in high esteem by the Patriarchs of their nation State, and long are they Remembered…...
by A. R. Lewis | Jan 22, 2008 | Poetry
Their voices echo down the years, demanding justice. “It’s the noise, echoing rebounding in the muddy trenches, The shells, continuous, shrieking, exploding in front an rear” “I’m not afraid to die, its living in this hell That causes the problem, I start to shake, my...
