Naomi Lanier

Wilmington, North Carolina

My name is Naomi Lanier. My nick name is Dee Dee. I have been writing poetry since I was in my teens. I have poetry published in The National Library of Poetry. I have been published in Editors Choice, Best New Poets of 1988, Many Voices Many Lands, Selected Works of World's Best Poets, America Poetry Anthology 1987, Outstanding Poets of 1994, On the Threshold of a Dream. I have won Editor's Choice Awards and a Golden Poet award in 1991. I have also written songs. I have two songs on albums. I write because I am driven by a force I can't explain.

Boy Of War

There is a boy across the sea
He fights with his life for you and me.
He fights in the morning.
He fights at night.
For you see there's a war in sight.
He won't be a boy very long.
For he has known the feeling of war.
He dreams of his home across the sea.
Which he is afraid he'll never see.
He crawls through the jungle all muddy and wet.
And yet like a boy he's scared to death.
He dreams of his friends way back home.
And knows how it feels to be alone.
Yet he must stay and fight today.
For that tomorrow peace will stay.
So when you are asleep at night.
Think of that boy that is out there to fight.