Airfield Poems - Poems about Airfield

...We were flying back after flattening Coventry, all of us cheerful, confident young men, all heroes. On the return landing, amazingly we ......Read More

...September hues of school day smiles and bran new leather bags creative minds as young as baby figs with eager hearts of lore My days were full with mischief makers and bragging scalawags but ......Read More

...Between Iraq OEF and Afghanistan ISAF I did about 120 months OCONUS.. A peculiarity about Bagram Airfield which housed about 40,000 people, mostly US enlisted soldiers from all 5 groups and the off ......Read More

...Bagram airfield the Ugandans handled the bomb dogs.. heading back to my CHU after a mission i would see them for their morning walks.. one dog famously wore motorcycle goggles, story is he took a bla......Read More

...bagram airfield july 2010 hushed ether of morning huddled guardian warriors, arms aligned early call to prayer sounds the blood to chill arrives the entry check point white linen under issued d......Read More

...beneath circling clouds in the depths of the ocean with little nearby lies a speck of an island of but thirty-five square miles green mountain rising from which hot lava once flowed most tow......Read More

...'Twas the night before Christmas and outside blew a gale Ol' Santa had a brainwave and on his sleigh rigged a sail He was preparing for what lay ahead, an arduous task Then waved goodbye to Mr......Read More

...Leslie Holden came from East Adelaide a South Australia town When on 26 May 1915 he enlisted in the 4th Light Horse of the AIF renown He was a driver when the 4th left for Egypt and the war Then......Read More

...The night was dark, in the park when I heard a bark then a ringing bell, blood curdling yell straight from Hell A loud clunking sound from the ground had me spellbound by the ploys of the no......Read More

...Vietnam in '68 By Franklin Price 08/10/2020 January '68, I arrived at Cam Rahn Bay Found out this place, in Vietnam, was the best place I could play Ground bound, in the Air Force, and living ......Read More

...Oh banish from the dim lit moor barren windswept cold and more the untamed nagging beast and boor Oh darkened sky above the fire smoke rising from the pricey pyre signals where my hopes retire......Read More

...Poets, poems, are birds that seek spaces to rest ... The beloved heart it's a safe haven, an airport, an airfield for poetry (love) land... !......Read More

...Old John's birthday was approaching, he'd be seventy two And his family asked him nicely what he'd like to do "Do you fancy a nice picnic or sightseeing on a train" "No thanks" said Old John......Read More

...I found John today. John died yesterday. I read of John today. I vibrate now to his pinch. Somewhere by a poisoned river a dead man was born... Somewhere by a noisy airfield a pre-writ ob......Read More

...(N.A.A.F.I. = universal store, found on every British military base) On some bleak airfield on some Cambridge fen (that awful winter - 'forty-seven, I think) my mother, novice servicewoman ......Read More