Contemplating perspective…
Sing-Song Of Whales
Seas subtle and blunt
The sing-song of whales echo
Submariners hunt
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From – Short Thoughts: A Book Of Haiku (aWIP)
Category Archives: Fight
Feeling the Fears
For the women in my life that keep on…
Feeling the Fears
She wonders how she can go on
Fighting all the little demons
In her body
Wasn’t ready
For this awful test of courage
The fatigue and pain discourage
Mighty spirits
Grown to fear it
But courage’s not feeling no fears
It’s going on despite the tears
That cloud the eye
Wiping them dry
She picks herself up and strides forth
Not knowing how, only of course
For the loved ones
She can’t be done
So she stands yet another day
And will yet again come what may
Until she mends
Or til the end
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From – A Warrior’s Tears: Poems of Pain (aWIP)
Stands Ready
Of love and commitment…
Stands Ready
A father watches
And stands ready to battle
Strife the kid catches
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From – A Warrior’s Battles: Poems of Struggle (aWIP)
Seven Was Enough
Contemplating struggle…
Excerpted from – Seven Was Enough
In legend, Robert lay restless in a cave
Taken with grief
At the horrors beyond belief
He’d brought to family and friends that led to their graves
He pondered giving it up
Of sailing off to the holy land
But at that moment espied a spider
Struggling to reach the wall while he lay there
Six times it was that it failed…
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Now But A Slender Strand
Decisions and responsibility…
Excerpted from – Now But a Slender Strand
…Back was their lone hope
That he might make time for the escape of his injured
On the trail that was now but a slender strand
The pursuing band
Was by the Bruce’s own blade deterred
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Raw Courage
Contemplating the nature of heroism…
Raw Courage
A dog growls at me
I marvel at raw courage
And those pointed teeth
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Few Got Away
Victory, glory, and defeat…
Excerpted from – Few Got Away
The Scots under Wallace
Were spotted in the wood near Falkirk awaiting the English
Edward was trampled by his horse but despite two broken ribs
Mounted this same steed ready to see who would live
The Scots arrayed themselves on the slope
Prepared to meet the foe
English cavalry overran the Scots archers
Then history turned on astonishing departures
Edward’s cavalry charged…
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A Hero None the Less
Regarding fear, courage, and heroes…
A Hero None the Less
And in our most hallowed halls is where he is found
Fighting with passion loving his land
Under loads that would strike many down
Always he’s given more than duty demands
At the powerful it’s fun he pokes
Including himself to our delight
Never far from a smile or a light hearted joke
Even when it’s for his death his enemies hoped
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Governor of Carlisle
Duty and the fight…
Excerpted from… Governor of Carlisle
Robert the Elder and Lord of Annandale
Received the command
From Edward, King of England
To repulse the Scots. And so he did when they assailed
The great castle at Carlisle
The two John Comyns
Earl of Buchan and the Lord of Badenoch
With six more earls brought
An army to those walls and tried to storm in
But the Elder with his men held tenaciously while…
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Proud to Stand
Reveling in the glory of the moment…
Proud to Stand
I have fought real men
And been proud to stand with them
Or against again
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From – Straight Thru the Curves: A Book of Haiku (WIP)