Last Call

[The_Fool]

I didn't want to burden Tess' Last Orders STC thread with these...

Sometimes ya just gotta say what ya gotta say. There is no agenda here other than a soldier grieving for other soldiers. Yes, the first one inspired the second.

And Ange, I will still write that Last Order Ville.

Not really seeking them, but feel free to comment, critique or vent....

Very Foolish Fool




Last Call

deployed to the desert
soon to return home
his last call
can’t wait to get back

next words come
from a sorrowful chaplain
the trip home
sooner and slower

brilliant bouquets
tied with yellow ribbons
a colorful background
for somber black

folded flag extended
on white gloves
rifles fire
a bugle plays
silence
among white stones

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Untitled


The time for which he waits is coming near
His days spent in the desert soon to end
And soon all those he loves no longer fear

He writes to those he loves and holds so dear
His time to leave this war just round the bend
The time for which he waits is coming near

His wife holds tight to his last smile so clear
And waits for his next word that he can send
And soon all those he loves no longer fear

His final thought, his final wish, his fear
was never seeing the ones he loved again
The time for which he waits is coming near

An open door, upon her face a tear
The chaplain comes to bear the news that rends
And soon all those he loves no longer fear

The burden that we bear is never clear
How much pain a moment can transcend
The time for which he waits is coming near
To when all those he loves no longer fear

 

[annaswirls]

Liar, very moving. Thank you.

SORRY! For some reason I get your names mixed up in my mind, they are both four letter words?

The Fool, very moving, thank you. And the fact that I did not notice that it was a villanelle is a testiment to your skill-- they often really grate on my nerves, and I have never been able to write one that I can tolerate reading a week later.


I hope it is okay to join in? Please let me know if not...

one hand on belly
alive with elbow press
and kick under ribs

one hand on sleeping
lolipop sticky hair
dirt tan son

wondering when
I became a breeding ground for soldiers,
delivering weapons to their hands

wondering with each push
closer into life
when they will come
for my sons?

~anna


sorry if I offend anyone, I am just just just
just another mother
so damn sick of sending our beautiful sons
our beautiful babies,
to die in war



edited to say
daughters, I had almost forgotten--
yes daughters too


edited to say, duh sorry The Fool

 

[Liar]

Liar, very moving. Thank you.

Credit where credit's due. That was the The Fool, not me.



This is me:

no boots salvage
no armor shiels
no camouflage hides
two burning
too virgin eyes
a sing song beat
in delicious dance
with a purple pinnacle
of heart shaped fear

no gun can
wipe away a tear

 

[Angeline]

It's excellent, fooly--and yes very moving. Well done and I especially like the last stanza; it sums up the poem beautifully.

and ty for reminding me how to write a vil!

 

[annaswirls]

Thanks Liar eek

I edited the original post.

I really do not like calling you Liar or him Fool as I would never do so if you did not give yourselves these names... neither of you seem to be either...

unless you look under the layers of the meanings of these terms... I will think of these


"wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world"
ee cummings

 

[Angeline]

Thanks Liar eek

I edited the original post.

I really do not like calling you Liar or him Fool as I would never do so if you did not give yourselves these names... neither of you seem to be either...

unless you look under the layers of the meanings of these terms... I will think of these


"wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world"
ee cummings

Well, I can't think of a literary reference for Liar, but yknow in King Lear, the fool is the smartest, most insightful character in the play.

 

[Liar]

Well, I can't think of a literary reference for Liar

I only know one, the one that I took my name from.

 

[Maria2394]

we send our bravest off to war
in bellies of behemoth planes

weekend warriers, moms and dads
stand up proud in danger's way

yellow ribbons tied to throats
of politicians can't lessen the pain

when we send our bravest off to war
possibly never to breathe again

President Bush, you have no right
to censor my grief or what my children see

why, I ask you, is it alright,
to wish them well and watch them leave

but hide their lifeless bodies once
they're defeated by grudge and greed

returned to us in cargo planes
in flag-draped coffins hidden from sight

President, Sir, You have no right
to take the liberty these souls died for

and use it as propaganda
to censor this American's grief


*******

for jake, scott, wendy, and all my other soldier buddies, God Bless you all

 

[The_Fool]

Thanks Liar eek

I edited the original post.

I really do not like calling you Liar or him Fool as I would never do so if you did not give yourselves these names... neither of you seem to be either...

unless you look under the layers of the meanings of these terms... I will think of these


"wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world"
ee cummings

A few have commented on the name, but I have never really explained why I use The Fool.

I came up with The Fool is for a number of reasons.

First, I have studied many things, read lots, learned a little in a lot of areas. The more knowledge and wisdom I gain, the more I feel pretentious on insisting I am anything more than just another foolish person. The Fool as a name reminds me that I am no better than any other, and also no worse than any other.

Secondly, what man who is really and truly in love with a woman, even for a moment, is going to act any other way than as a fool. Fool for love, Fool for romance, Fool for lust. I fall in and out of love all the time. Of course there are different types of love. And I must add there are some ladies I have never ever fallen out of love with and never will.

Fool is also another name for Jester, going back to the middle ages. In this persona, I am here to do nothing more than entertain, with poetry, with prose, with sarcasm, with pratfalls.

Finally, I look at the meaning of The Fool in the Tarot. Blithely setting out into the world, carefree and trusting, even to the point of walking of the cliff, knowing that only good things can happen.

There you have it. I have just been too lazy to explain…

Fool

 

[The_Fool]

Liar, very moving. Thank you.

SORRY! For some reason I get your names mixed up in my mind, they are both four letter words?

The Fool, very moving, thank you. And the fact that I did not notice that it was a villanelle is a testiment to your skill-- they often really grate on my nerves, and I have never been able to write one that I can tolerate reading a week later.

Thank you for the kind compliments. Feel free to step in any time. Fool, Liar, Shithead, I've been called them all, so wasn't concerned. Liar is an excellent poet, so I don't mind a mistake like that. As for reading stuff a week later, once it's written I never go back...

 

[Angeline]

A few have commented on the name, but I have never really explained why I use The Fool.

I came up with The Fool is for a number of reasons.

First, I have studied many things, read lots, learned a little in a lot of areas. The more knowledge and wisdom I gain, the more I feel pretentious on insisting I am anything more than just another foolish person. The Fool as a name reminds me that I am no better than any other, and also no worse than any other.

Secondly, what man who is really and truly in love with a woman, even for a moment, is going to act any other way than as a fool. Fool for love, Fool for romance, Fool for lust. I fall in and out of love all the time. Of course there are different types of love. And I must add there are some ladies I have never ever fallen out of love with and never will.

Fool is also another name for Jester, going back to the middle ages. In this persona, I am here to do nothing more than entertain, with poetry, with prose, with sarcasm, with pratfalls.

Finally, I look at the meaning of The Fool in the Tarot. Blithely setting out into the world, carefree and trusting, even to the point of walking of the cliff, knowing that only good things can happen.

There you have it. I have just been too lazy to explain…

Fool

See? I was right on my Lear reference! You also put me in mind of what someone said to me recently which, paraphrased, was something along the lines of "Women really have all the power. We men just kinda stumble along beside them." Not sure I totally agree with that (especially the power part, but it made sense in the context he meant it), but it came to mind in reference to that one point you made.


Ange

sorry if i'm waxing philosophic, but I'm listening to this great Van Morrison cd and it's giving me fits of introspection, lol

 

[champagne1982]

A remarkable anniversary.

archived elsewhere

 

[echoes_s]

another perspective...


A mother

I joined the army
once
young and profound
ready to fight wars
save our country
help people
for a cause
because
I had no feasible
reason deep down
no one would cry should I drown
if a bullet should steal
this life
a sacrifice unnoticed
and better I
than a mother, father
son, daughter
even priest

Then I came with child,
another
son and daughter
of my own
was given a choice
to leave them to tour
a possible detour
of orphaned
unexplained reasoning
in their lives
and decided
given choice back then
to stay home
and remain
a mother