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Billet Poems - Poems about Billet

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Premium Member Canary in a Coal Mine
...She wandered like a gypsy to Wyoming, Where she settled in and sojourned for a spell. She found herself a billet at the Hog Ranch, And son, there weren’t no high-tone clientele. It was just a soi......Read the rest...
Categories: billet, adventure, allegory, america, western,
Form: Blank verse



Billet-Doux
... With concentration-knit-brow pose, She reads and holds the letter close, There's good news, her joyful smile shows, Rays of hope shine through the windows; In anticipation's mad th......Read the rest...
Categories: billet, love,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Two Ways To Say I Love You
...If you have people in life whom you love…I suggest you find a way…. to tell them that you love them…a little…every day. There are a myriad of ways to say ‘I love you’… whether you love a him…or ......Read the rest...
Categories: billet, love,
Form: Rhyme
Cockroaches
...They were always present. They ruled the kitchen by night. You could hear them in the dark See them when we turned on the light Making kamikaze runs across the grill, Hear them sizzle pop an......Read the rest...
Categories: billet, food, humor, life, remember,
Form: Rhyme
Greatcoat
...I'm my day the Army Was very frugal with our kit. Whenever possible if seemed They recycled every bit. My Greatcoat had certainly Been around for a while; It was of a different cloth And of a......Read the rest...
Categories: billet, clothes, memory, nostalgia, youth,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Here's To More Billet-Douxs
...One of the fringe benefits of working in a rare book bookstore is I get to hold and see…books that were published in the 1890’s…books twice as old as me! More often than not in these rare old book......Read the rest...
Categories: billet, love,
Form: Rhyme
Hunger
...He yelled he was hungry As he crashed through the door Stood there yelling and swaying On the billet room floor He demanded satisfaction But as no one wanted to fight He crashed back through th......Read the rest...
Categories: billet, drink, humor, memory, military,
Form: Rhyme
Johnny
...That Taliban bomb Blew Johnny to a bed And when he woke up He wished he were dead And when Johnny finally came home He wasn’t marching there Just sitting in an ambulance Alongside his new whee......Read the rest...
Categories: billet, betrayal, conflict, military, soldier,
Form: Rhyme
Summer 1961, Sussex
...What a stupid situation Twenty foot above the ground But when I reach the bottom I’m nearly half way round It was Ronnie Hatchard said it Hey boys lets have some fun Go back to camp and do Th......Read the rest...
Categories: billet, adventure, growing up, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Flaming
...There once was a young man named Lane who literally was insane he wrote a billet-doux using words of voodoo not knowing it meant to enflame!......Read the rest...
Categories: billet, fun, funny, giggle, humor,
Form: Limerick
Like We Don'T Know
...Gathering of men: Is always an awaiting den, To the available preys That care to listen to theirs says But to be dropped halfway. They can't be eaten whole; When this belief is begot in the......Read the rest...
Categories: billet, abuse, africa, beauty, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Three Little Words
...Just a little missive, a note, a billet doux, words scratched out on paper, strictly entre nous. No literary masterpiece, not even clever prose, just words strung together, but they're the ones I ......Read the rest...
Categories: billet, love,
Form: Rhyme
Letters
...They are only some old love letters that I keep in a box under the stair. Wrapped in string, with a wedding ring and a lock of auburn hair. And I take them out occasionally, and carefully unti......Read the rest...
Categories: billet, emotions, feelings, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Ve Day
...75 Years ago this day, the world held its breath Germany finally gave way, lost its grip of death Guns fell silent on the battle lines of grief Soldiers on both sides cried out with relief The wa......Read the rest...
Categories: billet, celebration, conflict, peace, war,
Form: Rhyme
Princip
...Think of the first world war think of young Princip his mud floor house with stones for walls Poverty and shame it was hard to make an existence it was hard to make a life the food that the......Read the rest...
Categories: billet, dream, inspiration, international,
Form: Rhyme

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