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Contributor: C. Douglas Caffey || Poem Categories

One More Day In the Sun country as flag
As a youth, having fun,
just another day;
running barefoot,
in the sun!

Time to run and play,
in another sunny day;
not a care to heed,
growing like a weed!

Summer now has come,
and I am one so young;
Come and run with me,
playing in the sun!

For days will come
when the sun is gone;
no longer barefoot,
without a Summer song!

War clouds are near,
protect Freedom dear;
join the band of brothers
who left fathers and mothers.

Put on those big shoes,
barefoot no more;
clouds hide the sun,
on a war-torn shore!

Red runs the blood,
in the dark black sand;
Iwo Jima standing
man to man!

Seven thousand to die �
no more to run
and play in
the Summer sun.

For those who
didn't die,
we hide in the shadows
where alone we cry!

We long for those
barefoot days of fun,
when we ran
and played
in the sun
of yesterday!
By C. Douglas Caffey
Copyright 2008
Listed March 20, 2009

Author's Bio:
C. Douglas Caffey is a disabled veteran of WWII. He served (1944-1946) in the 509th Composite Bomb Group, 58th Wing, Air Photo Unit, 20th Air Force, United States Army Air Force. It was the 509th who dropped the atomic bombs on Japan and did the atom bomb tests at Bikini in the Pacific. A chronic sufferer of PTSD since WWII, Doug is a former college dean. He started writing poetry several years ago and though he doesn't claim to be a poet, he does claim to write from the heart.

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