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Karla Dorman, The StormSpinner

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Welcome Home(less), © 2013, Karla Dorman
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Our Veterans should lack for NOTHING. They've already paid the price by their service and sacrifice!

(Image © 2012, Karla Dorman, copyright added.)


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Shapeshifting in and out of the
shadows, he blends in perfectly.

The years spent in combat have
prepared him well.  Hidden in 

plain sight:  watching.  Waiting. 
I know he's out there.  He joins

his brothers and sisters in soup
lines, scuttling back into the

cracks when he is done:  a
human cockroach that no one

wants to see -- or smell.  Thank
you for your service.  Welcome

home(less).  Strangers in a
​strange land they once believed in.  


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 Reviews of "Welcome Home(less), © 2013, Karla Dorman"
Reviewed on May 17, 2013
Shame on how we treat our Veterans; they deserve far better!! Powerful poem!! Well done!

(((HUGS))) and much love, your twin, Karen Lynn. :(

Reviewed by Keith Rowley
Reviewed on May 15, 2013
Superb; the structure, with broken end-of verse which is continued int the next verse lends a sense of dislocation to the story you tell. This is a most effective use of the poetic form.

Reviewed on May 14, 2013
Sad, our Veterans, should lack for nothing. Keep these coming!
In Christs Love
Michelle~

Reviewed by Paul Berube
Reviewed on May 14, 2013
Too true, too often, Karla. This is not the same country I grew up in and not even the same one I served just 10 years ago. May God have mercy on America.

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on May 14, 2013
A perfect description. Some of them that way for nearly 50 years. Somehow they survive the worst insults nature and the public can throw at them.

Ron

Reviewed by Budd Nelson
Reviewed on May 14, 2013
very often too true
budd


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