Category Archives: Pain and Sorrow

Contemplation, Fear, Life, Mystery, Pain and Sorrow, Sadness, Struggle

About Justice

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Contemplating loss…

   About Justice

A baby passes
I wonder about justice
And the randomness of how the fates will press
Themselves in upon the quiet lives of the masses

These are not questions
That will bear any good fruit
Only descending into dark depression

Or maybe worse spiraling off into delusion
Chosen for higher pursuit
Is a temptation

Dangerous clashes
Driven by those called to test
The limits of fate then forgetting about justice
No, it is just sad when a baby passes

   -gl-

From   –   A Warrior’s Battles: Poems of Struggle   –   (aWIP)

Courage, Duty, Fear, Heroism, Life, Nobility, Pain and Sorrow, Responsibility, Sadness, Wonder

Sacrifice Remembered

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Remembering those that serve…

   Sacrifice Remembered

Finding a way to pay back
A mom with her own serving children
Works to make sacrifice remembered again
Each month they honor another so we don’t lose track

But it’s more than that
A celebration of lives
Cut short but full of life and accomplishment

And in the mission there’s one more commitment
Supporting children, husbands, and wives
Of those that served that

Need somewhere to stay while the doctors try to bring back
Their chance to live as full as they can again
Don’t let memories be lost in the din
Remember them now and after Afghanistan and Iraq

   -gl-

From   –   A Warrior’s Tears: Poems of Pain   (aWIP)

In honor of Patricia Boyd and her efforts on the Fallen Heroes Calendar

Available at MilitaryHeroesFoundation.Org:

Proceeds go to the Fisher House supporting military families

Contemplation, Fear, History, Life, Pain and Sorrow, Perspective, Redemption, Responsibility, Struggle

Solve the Problem

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Contemplating responsibility…

   Solve the Problem

We must place the blame
Why? Does that solve the problem?
Sometimes such a game

   -gl-

From   –   Straight Thru the Curves: A Book of Haiku   –   (aWIP)

Beauty, Fear, Life, Love and Commitment, Mystery, Pain and Sorrow, Passion, Wonder

About the Whys

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Contemplating love and the falling in…

Excerpted from   –   About the Whys

Looking into pain filled eyes
I want to run but cannot
When she smiles I’ve just one thought
And the same as when she cries

Oh I’m in trouble…

   -gl-

From   –   A Warrior’s Love: A Book of Love Poems

Beauty, Contemplation, Life, Mystery, Pain and Sorrow, Sadness, Wonder

So Very Sad

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Contemplating beauty…

   So Very Sad

She asks that I pray
Why’s his face so very sad
It’s just made that way

   -gl-

From   –   Short Thoughts: A Book of Haiku   –   (aWIP)

Contemplation, Fear, Life, Love and Commitment, Mystery, Pain and Sorrow, Passion

How So Much

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Contemplating love…

   How So Much

How much can I say
How so much in love I am
When I missed the day

   -gl-

From   –   Straight Thru the Curves: A Book of Haiku   (aWIP)

Contemplation, Fight, Life, Pain and Sorrow, Perspective, Redemption, Struggle

Yesterday Stilling

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Contemplating weakness and pain and why I’m late…

   Yesterday Stilling

My back did go out
Yesterday stilling my voice
But for pain filled shouts

&

   Of Clay

And now but a rock
Or a wobbly lump of clay
Learning how to walk

   -gl-

From   –   Straight Thru the Curves   (aWIP)

Beauty, Contemplation, Duty, Heroism, History, Life, Nobility, Pain and Sorrow, Perspective, Redemption, Responsibility, Struggle

Cause Of Such

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Contemplating the nature of duty…

   Cause of Such

It’s words like duty
The cause of such abhorrence
Honor and beauty

   -gl-

From   –   Straight Thru the Curves: A Book of Haiku   (aWIP)

Courage, Fear, Fight, Life, Pain and Sorrow, Struggle

Feeling the Fears

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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

   -gl-

From   –   A Warrior’s Tears: Poems of Pain   (aWIP)

Contemplation, Courage, Duty, History, Life, Pain and Sorrow, Responsibility

Bridges Don’t Fall Down

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Contemplating looking in the mirror…

Excerpted from   –   Bridges Don’t Fall Down

Bridges don’t fall down
Not here in the U.S.A.
What can those in government possibly say
Though this make them frown

Well good
They should look at themselves hard
And should not in the least think to spare the rod

Upon themselves…

   -gl-

From   –   Bridges Don’t Fall Down: Stories from the I35W Bridge Collapse