Military Poets?

Hello!
I am a military spouse and am just wondering if there is anyone else out there who is writing from a similiar point of veiw either as someone who is in the military, working for the military, or also married to the military. I think that we have a lot to say and can offer a unique world perspective. Please write back if you are in this crazy boat with me!
Thanks,
Tana Davis

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Hello, I have a friend in the service, He has poetry here.

Here is his link

http://www.originalpoetry.com/poet/mindless

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Hi Tana,
I spent six years in the Navy in the mid-eighties. I was on the USS Yorktown CG-48 and we were Mr. Reagan's toy at that time...we were in several high profile operations including Libya. It was hard to be at sea for four and a half years. If you want to read my work from that period, go here.
Jerry

http://emotionography.net/book2/b2_toc.htm

Please sign my guestbook while you're there

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Thanks to both of you who posted
I really appreciate the response. I am not sure how to provide a link to my poems but I just started listing. My husband is currently in Afghanistan finishing up a really long fifteen month deployment which followed a one year deployment to Iraq, which followed another 6 month deployment to Iraq. The deployment schedule has been emotionally draining and exhausting for all of us. I will write more soon.
Thanks Again!
Tana

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TCDavis,

I served in the war in Vietnam, in the Army. It was a long time ago, but some things we just don't forget.

I wrote a few poems for this website like this one:

http://www.originalpoetry.com/and-if

But if you want to read about how the war and it's aftermath affected me, you'll have to go here:

http://www.glennmeisenheimer.com/war.htm

I have one thing to say to you. There is life after war. It just requires some healing.

gmcookie

Last edited by gmcookie 05-29-2009 at 07:10:56 PM

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Well ma'am I am currently deployed with the 5th BN 52nd ADA BN out of Ft.Bliss Texas. I have some work I have done on this site that is a reflection of my duty and my troubles. I have wrote all my life but never into this much emotional trauma. Thanks for being out there and supporting us as we are fighting the.. Good Fight.. Hooah from the Army.. And thanks from me.

Steve.

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Thankyou smuch for getting back to me! I haven't had much time lately to check my posts cause I am taking online classes towards my masters. We are stationed out of Germany and my husband is currently down range. This is my husbands third deployment in a row and we are getting pretty burned out. We had a year of dwell time between this one and the last, but most of that was taken up with school and training. So, its like he hasn't been home at all for almost four years. I worry about him constantly to the point it becomes hard for me to think straight. I think that poetry is great therapy both in the writing of it and the reading. Its been really nice to recieve posts from other people who know about military life and some of the difficulties it entails.

Tana

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While not a "military" poet (though son of two army officers), I posted one poem of late, titled Pavement Pennies, and I wrote it about all of the vets who return with PTST and are left untreated.

I would greatley value a "military" poets review of it.

thank you.

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I am just getting around to checking out other's poems. I should have more time next week I hope. I would just love to see a book of war related and military related poems put together by some of us out there who are writing about and not just super patriotic stuff, but real stuff that deals with all aspects that our ttroops and their families are facing. I have not idea how to go about putting something like that together, but, its a thought.
Will talk more soon!
Tana

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I never posted this poem.. only because I didn't feel it was very good.. But its about the pain of the heart when you get on the last plane before saying goodbye to the world you've known your whole life. and the words from loved ones.. or not the words..

Goodbye,I Love you, Take care.

Goodbye, I love you, Take care. These words echo in my ear as I stand there, surrounded by love alone. The love pushed out by others that are here too taking there moments as if they were their last. I stand there like I'm waiting for someone who is running late. Unknowing eyes falling on me like the tears streaming down my silent face as if knowing I was not really waiting for someone. Goodbye, I love you, take care. Words that echo in my ear that I'll never hear from the ones I wished, instead I remain until called. I turn and move out to the plane and climb the steps only to stop half way up and look back .Lost in hope to hear those words. Goodbye, I love you, take care. Envy filling my soul I turn back and fade away into the dark of the door way. I never heard those words I so longed to hear from the lips that love. Instead I travel on without knowing I'm not alone. Welcome to hell my mind tells me. Thanks for the memories. One more moment that shall not be forgotten. Its all over now.. Last words of the lost heart of a soldier...Goodbye, I love you, take care... goodbye.

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Hey Steve,
Just reading that really makes want to see a book put together from military related poets. I think that even if you don;t feel its one of your personal bests, I think it would be really moving in the right context. I need to give this book thing some more thought. I believe that there are many voices out there of military men and women, their wives and their children that are worth hearing. Hmmmmmmmm....
Thanks so much for sharing your moving and very personal poem, I thought it was very good, though I would love to see it in prose form rather than paragraph becauseI think it could and it would add to the impact of the words themselves!
Tana

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I served 21 years in the Army and am now retired serving Civil Service. I post poems occasionally and read often. I wouldn't categorize my poetry as relative to the military although I did write much during my time of service. You write about what you feel, what's happening and things you see; experiences. My poems don't mention the military or things that you could infer any association with the military. I'm a private person. They are about loss, love, pain and trying to understand and make sense of things. They are about escape too. All of these you will find commom emotions among those in the miliatary.

http:www.originalpoetry.com/poet/KLF

KLF

Last edited by KLF 06-06-2009 at 05:26:25 PM

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Hello,
I am not so much interested in exactly what the poetry is about so much as the motivation behind it. I think that everything we see and feel and endur and accomplish comes out in our writing, so whether you write about stuff that explicitly mentions war, or that your writing and poetry is a unstated product of all the events that made up you life, I think that it still fits into the kind of expression that we are talking about here and is still interesting to me. I will definately love to take a look at your poetry. I think that war and the effect it has on us will come out in all aspects of our life.
Thanks!
Tana

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Well for me.. The most of the time I have been here.. I think of just a few things all the time.. Those are the things that get me through.. I have a son on the way.. My family.. And the love of my life.. To me .. The mission is last to be thought of. My feelings and emotions may not impair my judgment or ability to preform my duties .. But I dont think much about what I do.. I serve the people of the United States and I'm proud to do so.. But I honestly.. Would be happier cuddled up with my love. Dancing or Singin.. Most deployments cause soldiers to think long and hard about their life as it is.. And how they want to improve it when they get back.. But it starts with one word.. So a few of us.. Write it down so we dont forget.. Like me..

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Hello TC

John Bird here. The poems that I have posted on this site, were the results of GOD breaking me, cleansing me as it were, relieving me of burdens which I had kept inside for far to long. I am now a better person learning to be happy and content following Lord Jesus!

Thank You for this forum

May GOD Bless

John Bird

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Hello All, and TC, this is another side of the war, people don't realize..

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Thanks,
I will definately check out her work. I appreciate the suggestion. I would love to see what a woman from another side of this conflict has to say. My husband is in Afghanistan now and is due to come back soon, but it never seens soon enough. "They" keep pushing back the return... 2 days here, a week there... I know that he is due back now, but this waiting in a Hell that never ends no matter how short the days get. I think that would be a fitting portrayal of Hell... waiting for something you want so badly that you would give your final breath to have it in your possession once more, but always is illudes you by a fraction of a moment in time, and you never get to really hold it again no matter how close you get. An eternal chase for an unobtainable desire. Basically... it sucks... war sucks... right or wrong... it just sucks.

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Hey, military poets! How about giving me a hand? I've posted 2 military poems: from the era of the Cold War. I'd appreciate it if a couple of you would actually read them & give me a little feedback Their names are: "Ben Guirer AFB 1955" & "Tiger John's Crew". How different is military service now?

Last edited by devaamido 06-17-2009 at 10:05:24 PM

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I am new to this site...REALLY new! lol
I have three sons, two who served in the Army.
Went thru 3 deployments...writing is what kept me together.
I have a lot of military-type poems and writings.
I am a chapter writer in a book titled, Walking With Heroes.
Would like to see where this thread leads...

Last edited by Lilyangel 06-13-2009 at 11:32:30 PM

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my brother is in the navy and yes i know how you feel i have wrote poems to him i will post the favorite one he loved for you

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Hey Fellow Poets!
I am so excited that this post is going so well! I haven't had the opportunity yet to read many of your poems, but hopefully once I get through classes this week some time will open up for me. Its great to hear from all of you, those who have served and those who know loved ones who have served, and even any of those out there that just have a heart for our troops. My husband will be coming home sometime in the next two weeks and Oooooooh the waiting is so painful. These next two weeks might as well be the two months or years... they seem like an eternity.

Once he gets back than we almost immediately start PPCSing out and so far it looks pretty certain that we will end up in Ft. Lenardwood MO. We have started searching for houses there, but worry that our plans will get changed at the last minute, because they usually do. I am just praying for a little stability just for a little while.
Hope to hear some more from Ya'll soon and I will check out your poems ASAP!
Tana

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I have been to "Ft Lost In The Woods, Misery"...lol
One of our sons graduated AIT from there and we went to the ceremony.
It was great...we got to take in a couple shows in Branson too.
I know that missing a husband is different than missing a son, but
missing someone you love is all the same.
hugs,
Lilyangel

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Lilyangel,
The only thing comparable to missing a husband or a spouse is missing a son or a daughter. In fact, it is often harder for the parents of deceased soldiers than for the spouses. I think that we somehow expect to have to have to possibly loose a spouse someday since no one can live forever, but a parent never expects to loose a child.

I lost my mother to cancer when she was just 47. I went to grief counseling and there was a woman there who had lost her son in a car accident when he was just seventeen and although she had five other children, she just couldn't come to terms with her son's death. It was then that I realize how devestating it is to loose a child, and now that I have one of my own, I feel it as well. I can't imagine what I would do if I lost either my son or my husband and I live in a constant kind of terror of the possibility of either or both.

As for "Ft. Lost in the Woods" its an apt nickname. My husband is not really looking forward to it, but I grew up not far from there in south/central Illinois and am used to the crazy weather, the trees, and the humidity even if I don't like it. My husband is from Alabama, so he can handle the humidity in the summer but is dreading those midwest winters....
Talk more soon,
Tana

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We had almost back to back AIT graduations and I will tell you, the one at Ft L was way nicer then the other one. Got to take a bus tour of the area and it was really beautiful.
Our middle son was injured in A, but nothing life threatening. Our youngest son did a tour of I and then A...three deployments in a little less then 4 yrs...it aged me! lol
hugs,
Lilyangel

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I wrote this one also...

M.O.W.E.R. (Mothers On War End Racism)

Are you conscious of war?
The soldiers 'mothers' hearts are sore
Is it striking, surprising
of the daughters and sons personal choice of deciding?

They wear their mothers crowns
The secrets they have to keep
from day to day
Their lips trying to say
either a survivor or none cuts so deep

Are you conscious of P.O.W.S.?
The bolder mothers stand firm and use
careful programs to voice their strategy

Multi lingual teams with all means
sow back the planets torn seams
Bends reality back
to end racisms attack

Tools of generosity, kindness,
earnestly, gravity, and sincerity
to name the nameless
Evil is shameless
so shame is not given back

Want to chat about spam?
This new war is an open can
It's whoop ass!
Mother cutting the earths' grass


Please rate it.. and comment maybe, pleez

http://www.originalpoetry.com/mower-mothers-on-war-end-racism