Christina A. Sharik

Christina is known as ArmyMom on the Internet and has been published in a number of Veterans’ periodicals and magazines, newsletters and a Newspaper in Texas. Her poems have been read at a number of ceremonies in the States over the last several years. They are also used in schools in the States – once as the basis for a play on Vietnam, in an elementary school as the theme for a Veterans’ Day writing assignment, and in a book on “Remembering” veterans of all wars, her poem Boots was the front page for the Korean/Vietnam section of the book – Christina was invited to read a poem at the Moving Wall in Tampa, Florida in April, 2001.
Christina believes that poems bring out feelings people have hidden for quite some time. “Anything that can make someone think a bit about the veterans is a good thing.”
These Poems and more are included on Christina’s Site
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Index of Club Writings
- A Comforting Friend
- A Flutterby
- A Grandmother’s Bargain
- A Homeless Heart
- A Moment
- A Musician in the Rain
- A Note to Poppa
- A Rainbow of Hummingbirds
- A Reply to a Late Nite Poem
- A Response to Ode to Brevity
- A Riddle
- A Sad Sago Song
- A Sappy Doggy Love Poem
- A String of Pearls
- Amish Stone
- An Early Mothers’ Day
- Angels Unaware
- Anger at the Sea
- Anniversary
- Anthropomorphic
- Ask Her
- At 4:30 am ~ 1
- At 4:30 am ~ 2
- Attention Customers – We Are Closed For Inventory!
- Autumnal Thoughts
- Be Unafraid: A Poem of Comfort
- Beach Chairs
- Becca’s Prayer
- Below The Sun
- Best Friends
- Blessings for Bunny
- Blinded
- Blue Vases, Blue Venice, Blue Fairies
- Boy and Mer-Girl
- Breakdown
- Broken Crystal
- Brooding
- Buttercup Afghan
- Buy Me a Ticket
- Cast Iron Gates
- Catch Me
- Caterpillar
- Caveman Dave
- Chloe
- Christ’s Laughter
- Church
- Clover
- Contradiction
- Conversation
- Criticism
- Damsel in Distress
- Dance Card of the Moon
- Danyca
- Dawn
- Dawn
- Dear God:
- Dear Little Boy
- Death
- December Passings
- Defeated
- Disappearing Into Stardust
- Diuturnity
- Divorce
- Don’t Be Afraid
- Don’t Read Between the Lines
- Early Morning Mist
- Early Morning Thoughts
- Eating Words
- Ego
- Elusive Rhymes
- Empty Benches
- Euthanasia
- Ever Watchful
- Expectations – 2012
- Eyes
- Ghost Shirts and Dresses
- Girl and Cat
- Give Me
- Grandma
- Gratitude
- Guardian Angels
- Guma (Donna Gilbert)
- Gun Nut Ditty
- I Am… A Blush
- I Am… Ariel
- I Am… Blind
- I Am… September
- I Am… The Candle
- I Am… The Dance
- I Am… The Day
- I Am… The Death of a Man Called Friend
- I Am… The Heart That’s Broken
- I Am… The Memory of You
- I Am… The Morning Star
- I Am… The Old Photograph
- I Am… The Painter
- I Am… The Rain
- I Am… The Tiller
- I Am… Vanity
- I Am… Winter On This Mountain
- I Am… Your Brother
- I Am… Your Cat
- I Am… Your Friend
- I Am… Your Friend
- I Am… Your Grief
- I Am… Your House of Worship
- I Forgive You, Mother
- I Still Believe…
- I Was a Poet at the Dance
- I Would Have
- Ice Storm
- If You Were to Love Me…
- In Communicado
- In Memory of Annalise and Holly
- In Memory of Michael
- In Memory of Phil
- In Shadow
- In the Silence of the Sunrise
- Indifference
- It’s All Right
- It’s The Story of My Life
- Maiden
- Messenger Angels
- Michael
- Moonboat To Dreamland
- Mother
- Mothers Day, 1985
- Mountain Musings
- Mountain Showers
- Mute
- My Bloodied Sleeves
- My Brother And Bukowski
- My Brothers
- My Heroines
- My Little Cross
- My Pen
- My Prayer
- My Sister, My Friend
- My Soul
- My Treasure Chest
- Night
- Night Fairies
- Nkosi’s Song
- No End To Dreams
- No Substance To The Shadows
- No Time For The Rain
- Nurses’ Hands
- Observation on a Winter Day
- Of Mournful Cries
- OK
- On Boredom
- On Breast Cancer
- On Emptiness
- On My Own…
- On The Loss Of Children
- Paper Umbrellas
- Parental Shadows
- Pepsi
- Pepsi’s Song
- Perhaps
- Petals On The Breeze
- Poetry
- Political Bedfellows
- Prayer for a Friend
- Precious Doe
- Red Doors And Ivy
- Reflections In A Whirlpool
- Regrets
- Request
- Rewinding My Mind
- Running For President
- Salome
- Salty Boots
- Sand Dollar Dreams
- Say My Name
- Security
- Shadows, Shame And Solace
- Sharp Edges
- She…
- Silence
- Silhouettes
- Silken Cord To Heaven
- Slavery Days
- Sleeping Late
- Small Things
- Snow In The Alley
- Some Teeny-Tiny Poems
- Some Thoughts
- Some Thoughts on Flowers
- Someone Who Was Nothing
- Sometimes
- Song Tracks
- Spider Webs
- Summer
- Summer Drama
- That Holiday Phone Call
- The Afterthaw
- The Andaman Sea
- The Beach
- The Cardinal
- The Circus Animal
- The Crescent Moon
- The Dance Of Hours
- The Descending Angel
- The Elephant And The Mouse’s Tails
- The Evidence
- The Face Of God
- The Facing Of The Night…
- The Games
- The Generosity Blues
- The Guard At The Door
- The Land Baby
- The Last Unicorn
- The Lion Girl
- The Looking Glass River
- The Moon Is Weary
- The Night
- The Northwind
- The Pit Boys
- The Polar Bear
- The Politics Of Friendship
- The Race
- The River Nymph
- The Silver Sliding Of Time
- The Snow Queen
- The Thievery Of Dolphins
- The Unmade Bed
- The Upside-Down Day
- The Wounded Angel
- They Demand It (Some Fall Thoughts)
- Thin Skin
- This Color Is Adaptable
- Thoughts At 3 am
- Time
- Time
- Time
- To A Friend with Cancer
- To Touch The Hem Of God
- Today I Am Sixty
- Tracery
- Tribute To A Mother
- Tristan’s Poem