Patriotism Poems (214)

The smoke clears
I can see through all the tears..

A man in uniform
Here to keep his country from harm..

Whither friend or foe
He has to know..

The heart is strong
And feels right from wrong..

If the story be told
There’s one more from the same mold..

Young boy to the man that be
Father would be proud of the man I see..

Grown up with lessons learnt
From pasted mistakes that burnt..

Feeling touch and hands reach out
Nothing needed, not even a shout....

~Author Elina Rawlins~

Sometimes it is good to just scribble
Other times it is good to giggle
I find my self having a game within the game
It does not mater nothing remains the same
Darwin suggests "those that adapt the quickest will survive"
I wonder what Einstein and Da Vinci would contrive
It is all good one day at a time
Music the noise the wonderful chime
Walking in the hustle of the crowd
being close to the one you are most proud
Wondering from one city to another
all of us sister and my brother
Accepting the laws of the land
marching in rhythm with the band
The march of life is uphill
uncertainties give me a chill
Decisions are to be made
Thoughts to improve the grade
This choice or that choice what do I say
Jumping and dancing all day I play
I have to be accountable for all of my actions
from banking shopping and all the infractions
Keep your head up be positive and true
the land and the wondeful ocean blue
We enter this world as babies
and face all of the maybes
Does it every make sense
Daily activities to condense
Go forth be strong and brave
The righteous truth I crave
Good night to one and all
Do not hesitate to give me a call

This line we drew was one drew by few.
With blood and tears we drew for you.
To protect what is true is our motto to you.
One nation our nation the flag flies foever true.
We march onward forevermore not to claim glory or fame.
our love of our land make us stand and with our hearts we fight
No matter the cost no matter the stakes this bond we hold can not breaks. as long the heart beats we will rise to our feet on this line we foever stand proud.

Hey there, Baby, I'm all alone now, the kids are tucked in bed.
When you left just a few days ago, I remember what you said.
You said, "Babe, I really love you, the time will go by fast.
Before you know it, I'll be back and the future will be the past.
So keep your chin up and hold the fort down, give the kids a kiss each day.
Tell them, I'll bring them back a special gift, from a land quite far away."
Well, I've tried to take these words to heart, but the time is going slow.
I know you think that I'm real strong, but there's something you don't know;
And that is,

Honey, I'm feeling lonely, Honey, I'm feeling blue.
I wish that you were here with me, or I were there with you,
But what can't be, can't be, me with you, you with me,
So take my love into your heart and hold it tenderly.

Well, now Baby, in the daytime, the loneliness hides away.
But when the sun goes down and the lights go out, that's the loneliest time of day.
I can't help but want you near me, your warm touch and gentle kiss,
The pillow talk that we'd have each night is what I mostly miss.
I overheard our children praying, saying bring my Daddy home.
So tonight I felt it right to just sit down and write this poem.
We can't wait for you to come home, it'll be a special day.
It seems to help to write it down, and to say what I have to say.
Except for tonight when,

Honey, I'm feeling lonely, Honey, I'm feeling blue.
I wish that you were here with me, or I were there with you,
But what can't be, can't be, me with you, you with me,
So take my love into your heart and hold it tenderly.

Please, God, Bring Them All Home Safely!

He never went to war because,
They just seemed so unjust.
All fought for greed or politics,
Some old men's power lust.

His father in the big one went,
The evil axis fell.
He liked to think if he'd lived then,
That he'd have gone as well.

The many men he'd met who claimed,
To love their country most,
Had more seemed charmed by violence,
Bravado, blood and boast.

And yet he knew that warriors,
Were often brave in fact.
When fearlessly they battled to,
Protect their buddies backs.

So when he saw his country's flag,
It filled his heart with pride,
And gave a heartfelt thank you to,
The ones who'd fought and died.

DOES IT MAKE A DIFFERENCE
STEPHEN DUNNE
IT’S TIME FOR A CHANGE,
IT’S TIME FOR PEACE,
BROTHER AGAINST BROTHER,
IS THE FIRING GOING TO CEASE

I HEAR PEOPLE CRY,
A GREENPEACE SHOUT,
POLITICIANS WHO WON’T ANSWER,
THEY DON’T KNOW WHAT IT ‘S ABOUT

WE’RE ALL RUNNING WILD
OUR EYES FULL OF HATE
WE NEVER BLAME OURSELEVES
JUST BLAME IT ON OUR FAITH

WE ALL MAKE CHOICES
TO CHOOSE THE WAY WE LIVE
BUT WHEN WE ARE WRONG
ONLY GOD WILL FORGIVE

LISTEN TO MY WORDS
MY LANGUAGE AIN’T SO STRANGE
YOU CAN CALL ME CRAZY
BUT IT’S TIME FOR A CHANGE

SO DONT FILL MY HEAD
WITH YOUR FOOLISH LIES
IT’S MONEY IN YOUR POCKET
WHILE ANOTHER MAN DIES

WHY START A REVOLUTION
WHEN THERE’S NO REAL CAUSE
THE DICTATORS ANSWER
WITH A ONE WORD “BECAUSE”

SOME OVER RATED LEADER
STARTS A BLOODY WAR
IF YOU’RE NOT FIGHTING FOR YOUR COUNTRY SON
WHAT ARE YOU FIGHTING FOR

WELL YOU CAN KEEP YOUR DEMOCRACY
AND YOU’RE REPULICIAN STATE
I’M A MAN WHO BELIVES IN GOD ABOVE
ALL YOU NEED IS A LITTLE FAITH
SO DON’T WASTE YOUR DIME
ON THIS EMPTY TRAIN
IT’S GOT NO VOICE
AND CANT’T HEAR WHAT YOU’RE SAYING

QUESTIONS WITHOUT ANSWERS
LIKE DOLLARS WITHOUT CENTS
WHEN IT’S ALL OVER
DOES IT MAKE A DIFFERENCE

all laid down with the lined stones
the felled remains of soldiers bones

row upon row upon row upon row
straight aligned see away they go

to top of the hill and far beyond
on holidays with small flags donned

all the young men now gone to earth
futures thrown to seed new birth

the tended lawns so well kept now
wives and mothers do they disavow

breezes blow through all the year
whisper the names of those held dear

to want and wonder whatever for
their lives sacrificed in time of war

we remember them with proud dismay
on this another memorial day

© agoodguy2have 2010-05-29

Victory! Says pounding drums
Success! The trumpets blaze
Triumph! Soldiers march in time
As the masses craze
Elated with our conquest
Glinting off our guns
Enemies defeated
We thrill aloud as one
Shaking off our weary
Standing up our pride
Shooting down our fears
Forgetting all we’ve cried
The nations swell with goodwill
The anthem plays aloud
Those who fight for causes
Center every crowd
Our prayers have been answered
Our lives are whole once more
As, beaten back, the enemy
Cry trampled on their shores
An enemy of freedom
Of all that’s good and right
An enemy of opposites
Attempted scourge of light
They weep aloud at brothers lost
Of fathers dead and gone
We laugh as one at faceless foe
Cast villains in our songs
Their livelihoods go ruined
Their lands lay crisp and dead
The pride of countless ancestors
By bravery has bled
A holocaust of victory
Sweeps bloody cross the plains
Their purple mountains craters bloom
Smoke tops their amber waves
As ideas build a nation
So by ideals nations fall
When godless nations go to war
Corpses heed the call
Their men die standing shielding home
Or kinless cross the sea
They must suffer so we live
Says government’s decree
Anger boils through our veins
At injustice supposed
Anger boils as death abounds
And tears down all they’ve owned
Heaven’s light shines down on us
And fills up hist’ry’s page
We trifle not with subtleties
Unseal the Reaper’s rage!
Defeat! Howl widows reaved of hope
Destroyed! The people pain
Ruin! Senses cannot cope
And never will again

On the skins of ash and oak
With eight pounds of slivered steel
I built this strength by youth
And time and work compiled

I have exhorted every muscle's fiber
Under the direction of my lord
To the support of his kingdom
And the security assured therein

In the days of my age, here, now
That I have given my strength away
These wild and voracious governors
Have all left me here to die

Had I but harnessed the power
Of astute and demanding query
Not simply just the firmest grip
I may have escaped this dungeon

I am bound and weak and injured-
I was ambitious for fleeting power
A well formed arm and strength of back
Abandoning all those political things

Here then, now again, this view of strength
In the forceful way of physical things
I have one statement yet to make
In the most political way of all

I have lost the durable power of my arm
And somewhere else, too, I lost my back
So I am left only with this extension
Of my actual self, an instrument of doom

When I was a man, I was such a thing
But I gave it up in the search of honesty
What power I had and lost, each year, but still..
I lacked the righteousness of foresight

Before my eyesight should abandon me
Or should I lose my steady hand
I sight in that terrible heart of hypocrisy
And squeeze his life from him

Once asked in Gnosis
The greatest ignorance of men
Nationality and racism I retorted
For we are bound by the body
A slave to intellect

Culture a diverse
Consequnce of bodily challenge
Experiencd due transit
All within time and space
To our source we err
And a common cloak we abound

Intellect remain a facade
Source of inperfection
distortion of unity
Nationality a chaos
Breeds via ill awareness

War a concept
Religion an idea
Philo-sopia a dictum
For in nationality we breed
All that is inperfect

Complexity our fate
For the present incarnation
Lost in reasoning
Caged in bodily intellect
We against them a chorus
Among the present humanity
And in nationality we err