Download or read book Poetry Through the Eyes of a Soldier written by Scott Grigas and published by . This book was released on 2010-12-18 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry written by Specialist Scott Grigas, Pennsylvania Army National Guard and some of his friends and family.
Download or read book A Soldier s Story Through the Eyes of Poetry written by Brian Hayes and published by . This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 121 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.
Download or read book Poems of a War from the Eyes of a Soldier written by Cedric Jones and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the lens of poetry, the author captures the trials that soldiers and their loved ones experience during war . . . times of separation, fear, death, and reunions shared by men and women sacrificing their time and often their lives supporting Americas freedom during military service. These poems, written by the author as a soldier deployed during Desert Shield and Storm, not only relate to the author, but also express the emotions of many others serving now or who have served and have difficulty expressing how war has affected them, their wives, children, or allloved ones encompassedin their circleduring the times of war.
Download or read book Yep I Wrote about That written by Tony Garrison and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conservative poetry?! What is that? As far-fetched as it may sound, Tony Garrison has in fact turned the poetry genre on its ear. This collection of poetry eclectically covers myriad subject matter ranging from current events to history, his time in uniform as well as bits of life, love, faith and humor. He comes at these issues from a common sense point of view and a no non sense, bottom line up front sensibility which reveals the imprint of his twenty plus years in uniform as an American soldier. His treatment of these subjects may be offensive to some but is guaranteed to motivate the reader to think more critically about many of the things we generally take in stride because we just don't have either the time or energy to entertain them. Utilizing poetry to accomplish this mission has proven highly entertaining, hard to put down, roller coaster of a read! This initial offering will whet your appetite for his sophomore effort Yep...I Wrote About That Too
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.
Download or read book Soldier A Poet s Childhood written by June Jordan and published by Civitas Books. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profoundly moving childhood memoir by one of the most widely acclaimed Black American writers of her generation Captured with astonishing beauty, through the eyes of a child, Soldier paints the battleground of June Jordan’s youth as the gifted daughter of Jamaican immigrants, struggling under the humiliations of racism, sexism, and poverty in 1940s New York. “There was a war on against colored people, against poor people,” Jordan writes, and she watches her mother turn inward in her suffering, her father lashing out, often violently, against his own daughter. She learns to harden herself, to be a “soldier,” while preserving a deep capacity for love and wonder. Poignantly exploring the nature of memory, imagination, and familial as well as social responsibility, Jordan re-creates the vivid world in which her identity as a social and artistic revolutionary was forged.
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.
Download or read book Notes from a Soldier on the Ground written by Wagner Hertzog and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2014-02-21 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notes from a soldier on the ground is a poetry book by Wagner Hertzog that deals with what all human beings are: soldiers in the battle field of life. Descending into the most pervasive lows on the underground ruins of life, the poems in the book are sincere and brief assignments of the enduring difficulties and inquests that all of us have to deal with, sometime in our journey through the turbulences of life.
Download or read book A Soldier S Thoughts Memories and Prayers written by John B. Carter and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lifeindividuals from across the globe have referred to it in countless ways, expressing the vast expanse of lifes little indiscretions through different idioms. Yet, through the eyes of this old soldier, life has beenand still continues to bea journey molded by past experiences and guided by ghosts, with gentle whispers of encouragement. In A Soldiers Thoughts, Memories, and Prayers, readers have the chance to travel through the struggles of life as seen by a soldier. But there is far more to author John B. Carter than just soldiering. Through death, divorce, loneliness, spiritual heartache, and triumph, there is a single message that remains at the forefront for those traveling through these pages: press on and overcome! From the poignant A Tear on My Pillow to the spiritual How Could I Love God? the author captures the emotions that bring these words to life. Faith is woven into everything Carter does, yet, as the oak tree of his life grows, its roots draw from the memories deep within him. Throughout A Soldiers Thoughts, Memories, and Prayers, there are photos from Carters family and friends, intending to catapult readers imaginations as the written words guide them from one experience to the next.
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,
Download or read book Shadow of a Soldier written by Beth A Goncalo and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The laughter still rings through her home, the smell of his room, the trophies displayed on his shelf, the little pieces of paper with friend's numbers scattered in his top drawer. Every word she has ever spoken for the past 21 years plays over and over in her mind. Her dreams stacked in a neat little pile in the corner of her room, for her dreams would be on hold while she lived through the eyes of her son. A knock on the door defined her future. Her life now a manifestation of her past, for her future would repeat every 11th day of the month, a reminder of the dreadful knock on her door. A flag draped coffin her son would arrive on a snowy December day. The tears that fall from a mother's heart, her sorrow, her memories and her love will linger in your soul.
Download or read book A Soldier s Son written by David A Hotchkiss Ph D and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems of nationalism, patriotism and honor await readers in the new book A Soldier's Son. Authored by David Hotchkiss, Ph.D., this book is dedicated to all brave men and women that unselfishly and steadfastly serve in the United States Armed Forces. "A Soldier's Son" looks at the greatness of America through the eyes of a career soldier who comes from a long line of soldiers; this makes him a soldiers son. Life in the military for both the military member and family are highlighted. Historical events such as the attack on the World Trade Center's twin towers, the Iraq War, the history of the Ft. McHenry flag, Pearl Harbor, and the Normandy invasion are all addressed in detail in Hotchkiss' poetic style. Life in America and things known as Americana such as family reunions, Christmas, backyard barbeques, and county fairs are also addressed. This book will make you laugh and cry, reflect and reminisce, and instill a sense of patriotic pride for America and the U.S. military. Hotchkiss invites readers to reflect with his poems on liberty, democracy, the American way of life, and the men and women who fight for it.
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.
Download or read book Breaking Through written by Tony Garrison and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the urging of a very close friend of mine, I attended something called The Breakthrough Weekend (BTW) down in Gainesville, Florida. I really had no idea what was supposed to happen and thought, I'll go because he seems to really want me to and I could do worse than spend a weekend in Florida. So I went. The Breakthrough Weekend is a workshop for personal growth but could more aptly be described as therapy on steroids! It probably is better to go there with no preconceived notion of what to expect- just let it happen to you. That's what I did and I can honestly say that I am so glad that I went. You see, all of us experience our lives in different ways but one thing is common and that is our internal survival instinct. It kicks in without our knowledge while we are children (and on into adulthood as well) to protect us in that we develop our individually customized coping strategy we use to interact with the people and the world around us. Sometimes though, unfortunately, these strategies are not helpful to us in the long run and end up setting us up for failure down the road. If you've ever wondered why you (or somebody you know) always seems to do what they do despite getting the same result every time, you (or somebody you know) probably ought to get to a Breakthrough Weekend, pronto! I cannot begin to tell you how much my Breakthrough has benefited me not only through the insight I gained into myself, but the community of friends of which I am now a part of. Everything offered is not for everybody, but that's okay- treat it like a smorgasbord and take from it what you like and leave what you don't, just do make sure to try everything so you'll know for sure! As a Soldier, we train for war. That is our purpose. And though we train for it, it can still be scary to have to go. Anyone who says otherwise is lying. Seriously, you can die! That being said, it can be a pretty scary thing to look inside oneself too. Who knows what manner of monsters lurk within? But just as serious as it is for Soldiers to have to face their own mortality, it is every bit as serious for attendees at BTW to face their own life, with honesty, vulnerability, and forgiveness. I say this because in both cases the reward is the same- you get to live! But after BTW, you get to live without your baggage. The connection between our emotional well being and our physical health is real. On a follow up oncology appointment, one attendee reported that her cancer had disappeared! If that's not heavy duty enough for you I don't know what is! The pieces I have included in this book have been inspired either by my own experiences or those of my BTW family members. Since we all have emotions (whether we like to admit it or not), you are bound to discover something inside that will speak to you on a very personal level. I can't wait for that to happen! But in any event, I hope you will seriously consider attending and becoming part of this incredible community of people. Having your own discovery is amazing but it is truly life changing to experience what I guarantee you will when you help others achieve their Breakthrough. I believe in this program so much that all proceeds from the sale of this book go directly to funding scholarships to aid people to attend. So thank you in advance for helping someone else on thier way to having a better life. Feels pretty awesome doesn't it? Told ya so!
Download or read book Yep I Wrote About Faith written by Tony Garrison and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was not baptized when I married my Catholic Wife. She was attending premarriage counseling alone (she was in England and I was in Alabama while we were engaged) and her Priest asked her at the beginning of her last session, "So, you still want to marry this heathen?" That was on the very same day I had won first place in a nationwide contest for the first poem I'd ever written about faith. God was telling me something that I was not yet able to hear. Fast forward about fifteen years or so; I am the Cub-master for our Pack and it is proving to be harder than wood pecker lips. Though I did believe, I was not living my faith. But a Scout is reverent (Scout Law) and I really needed a hand and had the crazy thought that if God saw me in His house on Sunday, things might get better... and they did! I joined the church although due to my regular presence there with scouting, they informed me that they had already considered me part of their church family. I liked all of them a lot too. You might say I even fell in love with them. As I grew in my faith, I began to think about it much more often than I had ever done so before...so I wrote about it! I'm not a theologian. I'm not a clergyman. I'm not perfect. I am just a Christian who freely admits his belief and likes writing about it. I certainly hope you enjoy reading about it too. God bless you, Friend! P.S. All money earned from the sale of this book goes directly to my church and our community of faith (see Three Churches that Can).
Download or read book Here Bullet written by Brian Turner and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first-person account of the Iraq War by a solider-poet, winner of the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award. Adding his voice to the current debate about the US occupation of Iraq, in poems written in the tradition of such poets as Wilfred Owen, Yusef Komunyakaa (Dien Cai Dau), Bruce Weigl (Song of Napalm) and Alice James’ own Doug Anderson (The Moon Reflected Fire), Iraqi war veteran Brian Turner writes power-fully affecting poetry of witness, exceptional for its beauty, honesty, and skill. Based on Turner’s yearlong tour in Iraq as an infantry team leader, the poems offer gracefully rendered, unflinching description but, remarkably, leave the reader to draw conclusions or moral lessons. Here, Bullet is a must-read for anyone who cares about the war, regardless of political affiliation.
