September 2006Faye Sizemore
Faye was born in Kentucky in 1942 and makes her home in the beautiful foothills of South Carolina with Grant, the love of her life, as well as three dogs, two cats, two parakeets and four nanny goats.
Grant is a Vietnam Veteran having served with the US Marines in 1968-69 and is, of course, Faye’s muse. Faye is deeply interested in Veterans’ Affairs and Veterans’ Causes. She is very proud of Grant and her poetry is an off-shoot of that pride.
Read these and more of Faye's Poems on her personal website
“Alone sometimes at midnight… seemingly alone… centuries of soldiers haunt me……
assuredly they are there…”
Index of Writings
- A Day In December
- A Few Words of Gratitude
- A Gold Star Mother
- A Haunting
- A Haunting of Bones
- A Long Time Coming
- A Memorial Day Remembrance
- A Message for Maggi
- A Message to Old Friends
- A Mother’s Prayer
- A National Treasure
- A New Beginning… PTSD
- A Prayer for Tor
- A Quest for Dad
- A Simple Thanks
- A Soldier’s Old Ghosts
- A Soldier’s Question
- A Soldier’s Rose
- A Soldier’s Wait
- A Tunnel Through Time
- A Veteran of All Wars
- A Vision Downtown
- A Walk with Grandfather
- A Welcome Home Waiting
- A Young Soldier’s Vision… No Defeat
- After the Rain
- An Offering of Understanding
- And the Show Goes On…
- Angry… So Angry
- Animal Kingdom
- Annie and Joe
- Anniversary
- Another Fourth of July
- Another to Remember
- Antique Wind
- Anzac Day
- Anzac Day, 2005
- April Ninth
- Arenas
- Arlngton in White
- Arlington on Thursday
- Arlington… They Who Sleep With Soldiers
- Arlington View
- As Shadows
- Ashes
- Attack on Fallujah
- Autumn Memories… September in New York
- Awaiting Transport… WW2 Heroes
- B. Davis… Cloud Rider
- Bacon and Biscuit Blues
- Baghdad Dream
- Bagpiper on the Battlefield…
- Battle Craze
- Battle Flower
- Battle Over… a Dream
- Battle Sounds
- Battles of Night
- Because…
- Before Eight Fifty-One
- Bleak Horizon
- Blood Red Moon
- Blue Monday
- Blue Star Mothers
- Brothers Elite
- Burnt Candles and Prayers
- Call to Arms
- Candles in the Night
- Cardboard Castle
- Carolina Piney Woods
- Carolina Soldiers
- Carolina Weeping
- Carryin’ On
- Celebration
- Cellmate
- Cherish
- Child Soldiers’ Dirge
- Child’s Play
- Christina
- Christmas Moon
- Chrome Cargo Boxes
- Civilian
- Coffins on the Quiet
- Color Coded
- Compassion
- Confession
- Confidence
- Consultation in a Parking Lot
- Cotton to Silk
- Courage and Valor
- Crème of the Crop
- Curtain Call
- D-Day Soldiers’ Request
- Daily Ritual
- Dancin’ Drummer Boy
- Darfur’s Dream
- Dark Fortune
- Dark Rider
- Dark September
- Dawn Forecast
- Days of The Wall
- Dear John
- Dear Yen…
- December 7, 1941
- December Mourn
- Desert Demon
- Desert Dream, 2005
- Desert Mirage
- Desert Wind
- Distant Call
- Distant Melody
- Dodge City of the Old East
- Dogwood Glory
- Dragon
- Dreams of World War II
- Drifting
- East Wind
- Echoes of Truth
- Eleventh Hour Remembrance
- Emily
- Empty Echoes
- Every Day is Mother’s Day
- Evil Spider
- Eyes of War
- Faces of Evil
- Fact of War
- Fallujah
- Fallujah Woman
- False Prophets
- Family Tradition
- Farewell Freedom’s Daughter
- Fatigue
- Fear
- Felled at Normandy
- Fields of Occision
- Filed under ‘Regrets’
- Fire Rain
- Flashback in Blue
- Flight from Saigon
- Food… Not of the Gods
- For a Departing Warrior
- For God, Country, Mom, and Apple Pie
- For Love of Hating
- For the Treasure Seekers
- For Tor
- Forever Thankful
- Forged In Memory
- Forget Me Nots
- Forget Them Not
- Fourth of July Festival
- Foxhole Fright
- Freefall… The Landing
- From A Veteran’s Point of View: Memorial Day
- From the Sidelines
- Ghost Guards
- Ghost Melody
- Ghostly Voices Whisper…
- Gift to My Enemy
- Glitter in the Sun
- God Bless the Seekers
- God’s Grace
- Gone On Ahead
- Goodbye to a Soldier
- Goodnight, Poet Warrior
- Gratitude
- Grounded Angels
- Guards at the Bridge
- Guilt… Unrequited
- Hallowed Ground
- Hark!
- Harvest of Hate
- Haunted Generation
- Hear Me…
- Heavy Metal Melody
- Hedgerow
- Hesitant Warrior
- Hey, Uncle Sam
- Hidden Melody
- Hidden Trauma
- Higher Ups
- His Walk in the War
- History Lesson
- Holocaust 2002
- Home at Last
- Home in My Heart
- Homeless Vets?
- Hometown Girl
- Honorable Discharge
- How It Is…… (PTSD)
- I Heard a ‘Nam Vet Say…
- I Remain…
- I Remember You
- I See… And Feel It!
- I Was A Poet Once…
- If Not Peace…
- Imagine
- Imprisoned Dream
- In Another Life
- In Dreams
- In League with Sherman’s Men
- In Memory: December 7th of ‘41
- In My Shoes
- In Retirement… The Medic
- In Sympathy… Australia
- In the Dark… In the Light
- In the Dark of Night
- In the Dark Time
- In the Shade of Orange
- In the Smoke
- In the Wee Hours of June Sixth
- Iraq Revisited
- Iraqi Nightmare
- It Ain’t All On Me
- Lady
- Lament on the Wind
- Last Words
- Laying a Rose
- Legacy
- Legacy
- Legend in Their Time
- Letter from Camp
- Little Brother
- Little Flags Upon the Hill
- Little Girl Grown
- Living in a Locked Room
- Long Tom
- Looking for Solace
- Lost Brother
- Manning McWhorter
- Memorial
- Memorial Day
- Memorial Day… Everyday
- Miz Red
- Moonlight March in Dixie
- Moonstruck (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
- Mother Freedom’s Beggar Child
- Movin’ On… Movin’ Out
- Mr President, Mr Johnson, Sir
- Mt. Suribachi: 1945
- Muse in Mourning
- Music Critique of World War III
- My Kingdom for a Blanket
- Nap in the Palace
- Never, My Friend
- Never Never Land
- Never Too Late
- New Generation
- News Flash
- Night Fears
- Night Flight
- Night Watch
- Nightmare at School Number One
- Nightmare (PTSD)
- Nineteen Sixty-Eight
- No Armor
- No Room At The Inn
- No Sand Castles… Iraq
- No Splendor in the Grass
- Non-Existent
- Not a Dream
- Nursery Rhymes (Conversations With the Baby)
- Nurse’s Nap
- Oath to the 10th Armored
- Of Bush and Beans
- Of Eagle Feathers and Flags
- Of Flannel and Battle Flags
- Old Chief Joseph
- Old Fellas
- Old Glory in the Park
- Old Man Sitting Alone
- Old Visions
- Old War Reruns
- Old Warriors
- Omaha Beach
- Omega
- On Hill Such and Such – Viet Nam 1968
- On Judgement Day
- On Memorial Day
- On Mud Wrastlin’
- On Soldiers (A Small Town View)
- On the Other Side of Never
- One June Day
- One Long Year
- Only Me
- Overthrow
- Pain… Tears… and Rain
- Passing By Babylon
- Perhaps…
- Photograph
- Photos from a Baghad Prison
- Pilgrimage
- Point Man
- Porch Talk
- POW/MIA Remembrance Day – 2002
- POW… MIA
- POWs
- Prayer for Poppa
- Pride
- Private Jim Barnes
- PTSD… In Color With Sound
- Purple Sands
- Rampage
- Ravens and Doves
- Ready
- Red Dress at Midnight
- Red, White and Blue
- Refresh My Memory
- Remember
- Remember Me
- Remembrance (Pearl Harbor)
- Remembrance (American Civil War)
- Reminder
- Repetition
- Request
- Request to the Author for a Rewrite
- Rockin’ on Alone
- Rose of White for “Cal”
- Roses for Jennifer
- RumsDummy’s Address to His Knights of the Manor
- Rupert (D-Day Para Dummy)
- Sad Music
- Sad September
- Saddam: Center Stage
- Salute
- Saying Goodbye
- Seasoned
- Seasons of Nine One One
- Secret in the Attic
- Seeker
- September Eleven… End of a Season
- September Tragedy
- Serenity Secured
- Seven Years On
- Shades of Green
- Shadows
- Shadows Arrive
- Shadows Owed
- Shaza
- Sign of the Times
- Silent Night
- Silent Reminder: The Leg
- Simple Things
- Sister’s Plea
- Sixties Baby
- Slaughter House
- Sleepless Angel
- Smiley Face
- Sniper Supreme
- So Recorded by “Caliber”
- Soldiers of Lesser Gods
- Son of Fear
- Song in the Sands
- Sorry-Assed Wannabes
- Sounds of America
- South and Home
- South in Liberty
- Speak for Thine Self
- Speak to Me
- Speaking of Peace
- Spectre in Gothic
- Spotlighted (PTSD)
- Springtime in the South
- Stand
- Stand Aside
- Standard Issue
- Standing at Reason… With Head Bowed
- Starring on The Wall
- Stars… and Stripes… and Wrinkles
- Stayin’ Ahead of the Ghosts
- Steel Memorial
- Still and All
- Still Headin’ Home
- Still Highly Decorated
- Still… On a Southern Porch
- Stone Soldiers (PTSD)
- Storm Warning
- Stranger at Rest
- Such as the GreyEagle – The SOG
- Sudan
- Sunset Soldier
- Table Rock Trail
- Taps
- Tarnished Soldier
- Task
- Television ON/OFF
- The Aussie Bard
- The Black Virgin… Nui Ba Den
- The Boy Soldiers
- The Carolina Rose
- The Closet… WWII… A Self Education
- The Daffodil That Grows Upon Yonder Hill In Honor Of Bill
- The Donation
- The Dragon’s Bride
- The Eagle’s Wings Are Broken (A Response)
- The Farmers Went to War
- The Ghosts of Sand Creek
- The Higher Trail
- The Jewish Butcher and the Gestapo
- The Key
- The Killing Fields
- The Killing of Margaret Hassan
- The Knock
- The Last Bell
- The Last Note
- The Last Storm
- The Light in the Shadow
- The Messenger
- The Name of the Game
- The Neighbor Boy
- The Night Before… the Morning After
- The Night Watchman
- The Parting
- The Plan
- The Plateyes
- The Poet Pahl
- The Procession
- The Rats beneath Baghdad
- The Reality… Just Inside The Wire
- The Red Pen
- The River’s Name
- The Scent of Roses
- The Scythe Tree
- The Sixth of August
- The Soldier and the Flower Child
- The Tablet
- The Tee Shirt
- The Two T’s
- The Uniform
- The Veteran’s Wife
- The Visitor
- The Wall
- The Way It Is
- The Witching Hour
- Then and Now
- They Say
- Think About It
- Third of April
- This War II
- Those Sixties
- To a Grandfather on The Wall
- To All My Veterans
- Tolling the Bell
- Trek in the Night
- Tribute
- Twilight (Part 1)
- Veteran’s Abode… Forbidden Woods
- Veterans’ Cemetery 2003
- Veterans Day, 2001
- Veterans Day, 2004
- Veterans Day, 2005
- Veterans’ Highway
- Viet Nam
- Visions
- Voices
- Voices of No Gun Ri
- Wail of the Banshee
- Waiting Time
- War!
- War Correspondent ‘68 – ‘69
- War Photos
- WARNING!!!
- Warrior
- Warrior Once… Homeless Now
- Warrior’s Reflection
- We Are Not Cain
- We Were Not There
- What Are They Marching For?
- What Are You Crying For?
- What Dreams… (In Memory of the Holocaust)
- What the Wind Knows
- Where?
- Why Do I Cry?
- Why I Cannot Write a Memorial Day Poem…
- Winter at a Soldier’s Grave
- Without Tears
- Would That the War Was O’er
- Writing Wrongs
Recipient of the IWVPA Bronze Helmet Top Poet Award of Excellence for August 2005