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Basra
Basra Poems - Poems about Basra
Shades
...APoem For ANZAC Day 25 April 2015 One hundred years on and Old enemies are now friends So often the way of the world After conflicts ends. And that War To End All Wars Just laid the foun......
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Terry Ireland
Categories:
basra,
memorial day, military, remembrance
Form:
Rhyme
The Mother of All
...Love affairs, wars, depression, gastronomy, obsession, weight loss, job loss, don't give a toss, Bill Goss, arguments, instalments, increments, incidents, discension, derision, indecision, my pens......
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Terry Reeves
Categories:
basra,
hate, murder, political, violence,
Form:
Prose
Jon-Allan Butterworth
...Whilst Jon-Allan was out Iraq to warfare ban, In 2007 he sustained an injury, rocket attack, So that doctors had to amputate his left arm, But after rehab he continued the sport’s crack. He......
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Dominique Webb
Categories:
basra,
sports, strength,
Form:
Quatrain
Baghdad
...As the wind blows across The deserts in Baghdad There’s a little girl in Jordan Picking fruits in an orchard In the back yard of her home In another far away country When war came to the Iraq......
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Kasim Ishmael
Categories:
basra,
introspection,
Form:
Light Verse
Mission Accomplished
...Mission Accomplished Basra, 2005 He doesn’t cry about it anymore. No tears in years. On occasion, though, those who know him see his good arm fly, fist up, just above his eye. So far ......
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Donal Mahoney
Categories:
basra,
confusion
Form:
Free verse
Basra, 2004
...Basra, 2004 He doesn’t cry about it anymore. No tears in years. On occasion, though, those who know him see his good arm fly, fist up, just above his eye. So far the sun each time has ba......
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Donal Mahoney
Categories:
basra,
war
Form:
Free verse
Vasava - An Untold Story 2/Many
...Vasava An untold story Part 02/Many Description of the Vasava's Amazing Beauty Her eyes brows were blessed by the Goddess of beauty and love And they use to come in motion, during her......
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Ravindra K Kapoor
Categories:
basra,
life, love, music, passionbeautiful,
Form:
Free verse
Misfortunes of War and Beyond No More
...The price we pay For these countries of ours Battlefield loss Coffined towers Daughters and sons Gunned down Patriotic souls Perish, under Nature's sun Terrorist war, i cant understand......
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James Fraser
Categories:
basra,
death, faith, history, life,
Form:
Rhyme
" the Gulf In War " Page 2 of 3
...Tomorrow comes, and lo and behold WMD, Weaponry - Middle East stranglehold Chemical Scuds, conventional too What will Saddam's madness do. Visions of - Gulf No 1 Burning wells under our lovel......
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James Fraser
Categories:
basra,
death, history, life, loss,
Form:
Rhyme