O eagle born of fire and spirit Freedom’s bastion in morning sun’s conflict Flying pristine skys of hope yet above us rising Bearing a symbol of keen wisdom sharing Through flames of torment Abiding in this hour of discontent O eagle born of fire and spirit Of the purest clarion call benefit Watchguard over this nation proud and free Rousing great emblem of sovereignty O’er enemy watchfire camps liberty screeching O’er huddled masses truth seeking O eagle flying proud, born of fire and spirit Harken unto Satan’s rampant misfit Hail his desert band of fanatical terrorists His cult abounding of evilly endowed extremists Hating anyone that in difference exists In a twinkling instant of civility’s abasement Wounding an eagle, but for one dark moment As their cheap-shot round the world rings Singeing a sacrosanct eagle’s proud wings Discordant Armageddon sings As skyscraping towers tumbled into dusty ravines Buried innocent dead mid crumpled metal scenes As tears of anguished pain Fell as amber-tinted rain Evil sought to bring a great nation tumbling down Sent an eagle tragically thru the heart of flames flown For one brief moment’s insane alienation Flaunted by hatred’s fanatical vile faction Terror held this image of hopes obliteration For the duration before mad flames destruction In black hearted temperament Men of vile discontent Fists against the world clenched Desert warriors with hearts poisoned A great nation’s heartbeat, in mid beat stopped Burned an eagle’s feathers all humanity tarnishing All the world faltered in darkest imagining O eagle born of fire and spirit Unable to conceive of such hating vitriolic Mount to the sky this flames foul deed Creation’s bright eyed evil seed As silken fringes from humanity’s shadows bleed By dishonorable precepts wounding By acts devoid of understanding O eagle born of fire and spirit It’s pay back time for those with terror complicit To those with freedom, love, compassion, obsolete See an eagle flying thru the heart of flame indiscreet In darkness, smoke and heat sounding Sent forth from a sick world by evil hemorrhaging O eagle born of fire and spirit Deliver a message to the world’s armpit A message on wild martial air from mankind bravest Weather the iniquitous tempest We can fly higher, sturdier, mightier By hardship’s stormy travail we've grown stronger O eagle born of fire and spirit Seek out in his hiding place the malicious culprit Self anointed protectors of sacred right burning Who awakened us by inner hatreds screaming From reprehensible act innocence is still bleeding Show him innocent mankind, his evil sacrament Awaken him from gardens of enlightenment As winds blow now again to war and glory O what silver tongue shall tell thine story? Of egregious foes come face to face in history For false teaching is the most supreme sacrilege Of those feeling sanctimony possesses greater knowledge Tempting the fates of all who oppose in carnage O eagle soaring on high currents above us By thy power protect us As gallant men fall to earn their peace Defeat false learning to gain a souls release Defeat holier than thou ignorance By shrill reveille sounds awaken men from intolerance O eagle born of fire and spirit To peace on earth commit Refrain from calling innocent brothers names Rise above smoldering contentions all humanity maims Avoid the pitted abyss mankind’s whole defames Divine righteousness stains... Visit my Vietnam Poems index, each poem with more action graphics and Pictures from the lens of a combat infantryman! |