Charles J. Ingerson: Children (Photograph by Mark Palmer)
Photograph by Mark Palmer
This poem is dedicated to Mark Palmer and all of our forces serving throughout the world. cji

CHILDREN

Small and fragile
always so to me
within wars ill
with spirits free.

Holding hands
with smiles fair
not with demands
just to now share.

Matters not place
Nam or Iraq or
just a happy face
is a child's amore.

©Copyright August 19, 2004 by Charles J. Ingerson