Airfield Poems - Poems about Airfield

Flames

...We were flying back
              after flattening Coventry,
all of us cheerful,
confident young men,
                                        all heroes.

On the return landing,
amazingly
we ...

Paper Airplanes

...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 ...

Pink Reflections of Bagram Afghanistan

...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 ...

War Dogs of Bagram Airfield Afghanistan

...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...

Bagram Airfield July 2010

...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...

Desert Island

...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...

'Twas the Night Before Christmas

...'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...

Captain Leslie Holden, Australian Flying Corps 1st Aif, the Other Red Baron

...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...

The Bark

...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...

Vietnam In '68

...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 ...

Phoenix

...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...

Poets Poems Birds

...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... !...

The Wing Walker

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

John Ashbery

...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...

Return To Sorrento

...(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 ...

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