In War and In Peace
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For PTSD Awareness Day
In war, our
soldiers fight,
and they die
while we pray,
and we cry.
In peace, we
celebrate,
and we beam
while our soldiers
fight on in their dreams.
Searching for more poems like this? Try these:
- Stop Please! – Ukrainian War Poetry
- Golden Dragon – American Civil War
- Battle of Shades and Tints – Light and Darkness
- Soldier in the Snapshot – Enlisted Soldier on Christmas
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Paula Frew
Transplanted from Ohio to Kentucky to be near her only daughter and three young grandsons, the author wrote her first poem in the fourth grade. She fell in love with the form and was first published in an anthology at fourteen. A battle with multiple sclerosis has caused her to find her home in a nursing home, where she has found time to craft her poetry as well as time to teach writing to other residents. She has been published in several literary magazines and anthologies, including Ohio Bards and The Walt Whitman Anthology.
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