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Air Raid Shelter
Air Raid Shelter Poems - Poems about Air Raid Shelter
Usa Memorial Day
...To All Who Gave Their Lives Far across the seas, they went, to keep this great land ….safe and free. I was just a wee bit of a girl, decades ago.I was born the week of the Anschluss. Hitler, mad......
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Panagiota Romios
Categories:
air raid shelter,
america, childhood, freedom, war,
Form:
Bio
Christmas 2020
...Christmas 2020 No air-raid shelter turkey No window blackout blinds Defences have been breached, my dear The battle's in our minds. The season known for plenty The wreath upon the door T......
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Christopher Grieves
Categories:
air raid shelter,
christmas,
Form:
Rhyme
The Better Late Than Never Free Admission Confessio
......exhortations against Ole Saint Nick (alternately titled untold treasured shenanigans of Santa) his elves and reindeer discovered only by colluding via "FAKE" fluke did I manage to worm win......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
air raid shelter,
analogy, december, giggle, imagination,
Form:
I do not know?
Exhortations Against Ole Saint Nick
...the (better late than never) free admission confession, exhortations against Ole Saint Nick treasured untold shenanigans of Santa, his elves and reindeer discovered only by colluding via......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
air raid shelter,
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Light Verse
Treasured Untold Shenanigans of Santa, His Elves and Reindeer
...only by a fluke did I manage to worm winning trust among Christmas elves and reindeer confident this generic guy, would never breach scandalous tidbits, into a an underground i......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
air raid shelter,
christmas, holiday, humor, myth,
Form:
Light Verse
This Is Where Freedom Finds a Way
...Is it printed on a poster for all to read A newspaper closed due to printing what a government didn't want you to hear A book explaining a better way to live Graffiti on a wall telling you how it ......
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Stephen Pennell
Categories:
air raid shelter,
political, war,
Form:
Free verse
It Was Dark - Poem To Keep You Awake Contest
...It was dark in the Air Raid Shelter Water underfoot Candles had long since extinguished But the battle raged all night Mrs Brown She's the nosey one Had peeked though a chink Sky red with fire cant......
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Seren Roberts
Categories:
air raid shelter,
war,
Form:
Rhyme
Night Time Air Raids
...- We waited quietly as the sirens calmed and quenched their searing drone. The air raid shelter hushed in baited breath. One second more. Maybe the end is nigh. All a quiet beneath an unseen sky. May......
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Ian Foley
Categories:
air raid shelter,
war, child, night, child,
Form:
Sonnet
Red Step In the Blitz
...- Drones abound the London sky Search lights stray and flick to something and nothing The bicycle dings its bell every sixth house As the warden swishes his front tyre left and right up the empty e......
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Ian Foley
Categories:
air raid shelter,
war, house, fire, fire,
Form:
Narrative
My Grandma Smelt of Peppermints
...My Grandma smelt of peppermints. Her kitchen of boiling bacon, and margarine - it was always steamy and 'welcomingly' warm. The bathroom, off the kitchen, smelt of carbolic soap, and a la......
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Helen J Radford
Categories:
air raid shelter,
family, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse