Poems From A Soldier

Author : Layli Long Soldier
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555979610
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book WHEREAS written by Layli Long Soldier and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Don’t worry, you and your daughter will learn together. Today she stood sunlight on her shoulders lean and straight to share a song in Diné, her father’s language. To sing she motions simultaneously with her hands; I watch her be in multiple musics. —from “WHEREAS Statements” WHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through a virtuosic array of short lyrics, prose poems, longer narrative sequences, resolutions, and disclaimers, Layli Long Soldier has created a brilliantly innovative text to examine histories, landscapes, her own writing, and her predicament inside national affiliations. “I am,” she writes, “a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation—and in this dual citizenship I must work, I must eat, I must art, I must mother, I must friend, I must listen, I must observe, constantly I must live.” This strident, plaintive book introduces a major new voice in contemporary literature.

Author : Rupert Brooke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781857996562
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book If I Should Die written by Rupert Brooke and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anthony Jason Sellars
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1426924356
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love and War written by Anthony Jason Sellars and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love & War: Poems of an American Soldier is a collection of poems written by the American poet Anthony J. Sellars, set in the time before, during, and after his service in the U.S. Armed Forces. The collection encompasses over fourteen years of writing poetry. His poetry centers on the topics of love, life's struggle, family, the emotional effects of war, and the human need to reconnect and pursue God. The author writes from a patriotic heart that combines deep devotion, a love for the nation, and spiritual insight with the firsthand experiences of combat operations in Afghanistan and the emotional aftereffects of war on a soldier's psyche. Lessons and expressions from the heart vividly illustrate the possibility of finding one's pathway to hope through marital hills and valleys by communicating what is often difficult to say. A must read for people who are struggling in their marriages with the difficulties of a soldier returning home. It will help them to reconnect and reignite the flame of marriage, the living symbol of mankind's relationship with God. This deeply personal collection exposes the devotions of a person's soul and the journey to find his way back into the heart of his beloved, while also reconnecting to God and chasing one's own destiny.

Author : Duke Sherman
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1477146423
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Soldier's Thoughts written by Duke Sherman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veterans of the Vietnam Conflict When I was Young and Wild; No longer a Child, I went to War with my Brothers. From the North, East, the South and the West; we were, America s best. Many lost their Girls and Wives to Jody; along with their Booty! He was their best friend! While we were away, Jody did play! We went to fight; for you, and the Red White and Blue. We were taught: To shoot between the eyes, that way we knew they would die! We were highly trained in Weapons of Mass Destruction and, Combat (Hand to Hand)! Bullets would scream by our heads, one Inch closer, we d be dead. The sounds of the Big Guns would pierce our Ear Drums. Bombs and Napalm would fall from the Sky: Many men died on both sides; No matter how much, they tried to hide! Booby Traps and Land Mines were all around, on Tree Trunks, in and on the ground. Atop the Trees, Charlie would wait for us, to take his Bait. Immersed in Water; with Weapons above our heads, slowly we moved, make NO sound or we d be dead. Our way through Villages we made: Children approached us with Grenades. Charlie would hide everywhere, of our Soldiers, they were scared! The Cong were famous for the Tunnels in the ground, in our Tunnel Rats they were Bound, Armed with only a 45, they left no none alive! The Jungles were full of Tigers and Snakes, our Lives they could take! Those 2 days in the Rear; the Women we had to fear! "5 Dollars GI, Me make You Feel Real Good"! Entice us they would! Inside them; a Razor Blade they would embed, as to make Us Dead! Our Tracers Red, their Tracers Green, in the night they could be seen! To Fight at Night, No Moon light, 'twas a Terrible Fright! Our MOTTO was: NEVER GIVE UP NOR ADMIT DEFEAT! There was No Call for Retreat! As We Charged Into Battle, We would Yell: REMEMBER THE BLACK HORSE ! WE LL SEE YOU IN HELL! We were the Cav, the 11th Cav. No fight did we Loose, Most Fights we did choose. A Solider Then, A Solider Now,

Author : June Jordan
Publisher : Civitas Books
ISBN 13 : 0786731370
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soldier written by June Jordan and published by Civitas Books. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with exceptional beauty throughout, Soldier stands and delivers an eloquent, heart-breaking, hilarious and hopeful, witness to the beginnings of a truly extraordinary, American life.

Author : E.J. Hardy
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525581082
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Soldier's Book of Poems written by E.J. Hardy and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having been medically released from the Canadian Armed Forces after 33 years of service, I found myself dealing with the realities of no longer being able to work, a continually deteriorating state of health, and a significant amount of time on my hands. These poems were an outlet for my pent-up emotions. Importantly, these poems were written while in a deep depression and with heavy substance us/abuse. They are raw, abstract at times, mostly unedited and get dark at the end. Read them as I wrote them. That is where my mind was at the time.

Author : Charles E. Stebbins
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1616631392
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soldier's Poem Book written by Charles E. Stebbins and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our freedom is not free Go to any cemetery and see Look for any serviceman's grave See what price he had to pay Freedom comes at a high cost. Men and women are willing to fight and die for our great country, and they encounter some of the greatest emotional struggles of all. Soldiers have families and loved ones they miss dearly while miles away in the heart of battle. Soldiers have lost friends while fighting. Soldiers have formed lifelong friendships with those that make it through the battle with them. Here, in A Soldier's Poem Book, readers will gain insight into the heart of mind of some of our country's finest, the ones willing to pay the price for the freedom we enjoy. Many times, long after the battles end, these are the thoughts of a dedicated soldier, husband, father, and God-fearing man. These pages are a reminder that many have served and many more will serve to keep our country strong under God.

Author : Blues
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1467087394
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gi-Blues written by Blues and published by Author House. This book was released on 2006-10-27 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author has hopes that the reader will identify with her writing. Her perspective is that of a woman, a mother, a wife, and a soldier. Her experiences are projected through her poetry. She wants the reader to hear, feel, and experience different emotions, and draw their own opinions and views. She expects them to relate, agree and disagree with her writing. She hopes that in many ways it provokes a sense of consciousness, by reflecting on subjects dealing with love, hate, death, and life. The author has a particular genre of poetic style, using rhyme, free write, end rhymes, internal rhymes, and list poems, in which most tell a story. The book also contains love serenades, haiku’s, and some military poems. All that makes for a enjoyable and interesting reading. Her pin name, “Blues” represents poetic sound, color and thought. In her expressions she gives “Blues” a style of living, yet most poets would call it voice. But however way you perceive it, the dialogue should be memorable.

Author : Gerald Lewis Geiger
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465327541
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Soldier Poems written by Gerald Lewis Geiger and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006-04-25 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Horse Cavalry to Special Forces on bloody ground in bitter skies on raging seas, the American Soldier has battled and bled, served and suffered, testified and triumphed. These poems are dedicated to all who ever felt the sting of combat, heard the zing of bullets, clung to faith and comradeship. They cover Americas wars from the Gulf back to the Trenches from parade ground to wheel chair and taps. Regular, Reservist, National Guardsman the American Soldier planted Americas Flag and Americas Ideals wherever tasked to defend Freedom! By a two-war, valor-decorated combat veteran, father, grandfather.

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788880196
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World War I Poetry written by Edith Wharton and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The horrors of the First World War released a great outburst of emotional poetry from the soldiers who fought in it as well as many other giants of world literature. Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke and W B Yeats are just some of the poets whose work is featured in this anthology. The raw emotion unleashed in these poems still has the power to move readers today. As well as poems detailing the miseries of war there are poems on themes of bravery, friendship and loyalty, and this collection shows how even in the depths of despair the human spirit can still triumph.