the thin veil between –
day and night
moon and sun
land and sea
wrong and right
I know you must go
the cards never lie
but know the truth –
if you go
I will lose my mind
today you left at dawn
on the USS Alexandria
it’s out of my control
you say it must be done
you must go off to war
it has been a year
and today three marines
came knocking at our door
I fell to my knees and prayed
for my husband’s soul
there’s a thin veil
between disrespect and honor
as we stand a few graves
from Donald Trump’s photo op
smiling with thumps up
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Author Notes
The bottom picture shows Trump with a few Maga supporters. The photo clearly shows the tomb of Green Beret, Darin Taylor Hoover. His widow, Sgt. Nicole Gee did not give permission to have her husband's tomb included in the trump's photo op and she is furious and disgusted about it.
Donald Trump's outrageous political photo-op visit to Arlington National Cemetery on Aug. 26, 2024, is a disgrace and disrespect that has created furor among it's disrespectful to our veteran heroes of war and their families. And against . Army officials said one of their employees was abruptly pushed aside, by Trump campaign officials when she asked them to stop. Trump's campaign photos show Trump grinning widely and giving a thumbs-up gesture while standing behind the grave of an American serviceman killed during the 2021 U.S. evacuation from Afghanistan against the widow's permission. Visible in those images, too, are the graves of two U.S. Army Green Berets.
Gogyohka is a five-line Japanese poetic form with no strict rules on syllable count but as brief as possible. You may use any theme. Lines are grammatically connected. Alliteration, personification, and metaphor are okay. It usually doesn't rhyme, but natural not forced rhymes are okay. Japanese poets have written gogyohka since the 1910s. However, they did not name the form until 1983 by poet Enta Kusakabe.
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USS Alexandria, (united states ship) list of usa warships
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