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Maddie

...Maddie a little girl of eight, l dreamed of helicopters
She drew three of them in pictures for her grandmother
Her grandma wondered about it, but kept them on her refrigerator
Maddie and her paren...

Categories: airlifted, children, death,
Form: Narrative

Air Crash After Full Cash

...The plane had after three hours crashed,
With the scene after four hours flashed;
The people who had been airlifted
Without a lone exception gifted:
Three hundred and sixty passengers,
Thirty si...

Categories: airlifted, cry, death, fate, humanity,
Form: Rhyme

Replanted

...He was airlifted to another place.
The heath, the dales,
the ridges, the high moors,
they all began to slip away
under throbbing wings.

Occasionally a woman would approach,
a silk moth in the...

Categories: airlifted, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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Three Brave Young Men

...Pinchas, Yosef and Reuven
  Three brave young men
Fleeing a war-ravaged land
  Came to a country of sand

Ethiopian Jews driven out
  by a Soviet-backed Eritrean rout
Separated from their love...

Categories: airlifted, africa, faith, joy, miracle,
Form: Narrative

Operation Solomon

...The plane touched down
Ethiopians kissed the ground
   The Bible's holy soil
      Land of Israel
      Home at Last!

_________________________________________
Operation Solomon was a covert ...

Categories: airlifted, adventure, africa, appreciation, emotions,
Form: Rhyme

Forty-Five Minutes Dead

...It was a whiteout in bitter cold.
             You think you fell, though you don’t really recall.
		             Rescued unconscious, airlifted to the ER,
			           there by any measure of li...

Categories: airlifted, death, life, magic, miracle,
Form: Free verse

Replanted

...He was airlifted to another place.
The heaths, the dales,
the high ridges,
all began to slip away
under throbbing wings.

(When you are unearthed,
roots still wriggle,
flecks of native mud
c...

Categories: airlifted, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Re-Planted

...He was airlifted to another place. 
The heath, the dales, 
the ridges, the high moors,
they all began to slip away 
under throbbing wings. 

Occasionally a woman would approach,
a silk moth in...

Categories: airlifted, poetry,
Form: Free verse

My Lai Massacre 1968

...Against communist Vietnam a war was waged 
For almost twenty years fierce fighting raged 
The French came first then the U. S. arrived
Communism had grown and it had thrived.

Most American ...

Categories: airlifted, war,
Form: Narrative

Marxism For Dummies 7

...B52s above the Aleutians?
It never was a Red Dread global mission.
Fidel was just Galician patrician,
and Ho and Mao were scholarly Confucians.

They wore those uniforms like horsehair vests,
t...

Categories: airlifted, satire,
Form: Sonnet

Floods

...The land is flooded
rain that never stops
houses lay abandoned
water running through

Still the rain comes
relentless, incessant
roads are impassable
villages cut off

Army busy building
d...

Categories: airlifted, change, natural disasters, rain,
Form: Free verse

Appalachian Trail-First Bear Episode

...The Appalachian Trail is quite a long path.
Not many can go the whole way.
For those not content to do the math
It’s five million strides, so they say.

Most hikers elect to go part of the way.
...

Categories: airlifted, adventure, nature, places
Form: Quatrain