WOUNDED SOLDIERS

A poem about wounded soldiers coming home

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LAME SOLDIERS

Ragged, broken and torn

 

They arrive with colorful Uniforms worn

Medals shine but forever

We’ll mourn

 

They aren’t the same as they

Were when they were born

 

Limbs, body and brains bore

More than one could bear

For no more than war

 

Disfigured and mauled

Their life will never again be a ball

Forever they’ll crawl

For the deployment of legions

For those that gather

In the Nation’s mall

 

Forever those broken

Soldiers will be our heroes

For they truly gave us all

Author's Note

Some of our soldiers are coming back wounded. They struggle to gain their lives back when they come back wounded and permanently disabled. I was so moved with their story.

Reviews

[Dinesh Sairam]

That's very great of you to write this. I myself am trying to write one for the Soilders, but still trying. The only off-lines I found were "Disfigured and mauled, Their life will never again be a ball, Forever they’ll crawl". Seemed more like Rap lyrics. You'll do me kind if you only edit those lines, and change the rhymes perhaps. But anyways, I'm giving a 100. Keep writing.

Home they brought her warrior dead:
  She nor swooned, nor uttered cry:
All her maidens, watching, said,
  'She must weep or she will die.'

Then they praised him, soft and low,
  Called him worthy to be loved,
Truest friend and noblest foe;
  Yet she neither spoke nor moved.

Stole a maiden from her place,
  Lightly to the warrior stept,
Took the face-cloth from the face;
  Yet she neither moved nor wept.

Rose a nurse of ninety years,
  Set his child upon her knee—
Like summer tempest came her tears—
  'Sweet my child, I live for thee.'

~ Alfred Tennyson.

[Poetic Beauty]

This is detailed in the truth and you have wrote this poem well.

[Michael of Gilead]

Nice tribute

[Mauricio Montoya]

Marie you’ve done a wonderful job in bringing the piece together in recognition of the men and women fighting for this country.
Excellent job.

[Liza]

it can't be easy to be taken away from all that makes us sane and into a world where you don't know who your enemy is.... laying out your life to be a hero...God bless them

[Samantha (:]

I like this, and its meaning. However, I felt like you were trying too hard to make it rhyme. The best type of poem is the one that just flows, and doesn't feel so over edited. Good write, though. Picture broke my heart. ):

[KatiePie]

The way that this was constructed was so bold, it sent my heart fluttering, I loved reading this, it really made me feel.

[AloysiaVerben]

I love this poem. It's really sad to hear about the soldiers who are wounded while serving in another country. A moving piece for sure! Great work.

[hannajade]

i agree, it is very sad, they go there carefree and come back burdened with emotional and physicle pain.
this is a very nice poem that you wrote for them!

[Moflo]

This is a nice very fitting tribute. You can sense how its heartfelt and meaningful. Good write!

[Short.Nerd]

Amazing piece! Great job (: