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Best Aircraft Poems

Below are the all-time best Aircraft poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of aircraft poems written by PoetrySoup members


How About This For Veterans Day
How About This for Veterans Day

A monthly Monday morning military meeting
Would be great for them as way of greeting
Talking about things happening another day
Of past...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: aircraft, patriotic,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Soaring Hawk - a Haiku Series
Soaring Hawk poised high
Back drop a deep sapphire sky 
Winds in attendance

Mighty wings unfold
Caressing the Wind Spirits
They lift and support

Circling Hawk perceives
Rainbow circle on a...

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Categories: aircraft, beach, beauty, bird, flower,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Letters From Afghanistan (Cowritten By James Fraser)
Dear Carolyn:
Another letter from another tour
In this place in the sand they call Helmand
This will be my last, for you can be sure
To never look...

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Categories: aircraft, life, loss, warjoy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ignis Fatuus
Okay, okay, I confess. We stole the only hyperdrive ship that wasn't destroyed in the war. But what choice did we have? Our world is...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: aircraft, destiny, hope,
Form: Free verse
Fine Dining On Air France
We’re monopolized by the Saran-wrapped food,
the plastic cutlery,
absorbed by the clutter of the food tray.

Numbed by hours of jiggling,
the carting of torpid bodies through interminable...

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Categories: aircraft, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member At Dunkirk
At
Dunkirk,
where thousands
of stranded men
lined a bloody beach,
hope was draining with each
air strike delivered by the
unrelenting Germans’ aircraft.
Cold, starved, and injured men watched from shore -
their...

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Categories: aircraft, courage, world war ii,
Form: Etheree
Premium Member - God Bless America -
Watch out, guys!
"Clap hands, clap hands,
Till father comes home,
For father's got money"

Children play a game called "King of the Hill"
"Ena, mena, mona, mite.
Pasca, laura, bona,...

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Categories: aircraft, blessing, confusion, fun,
Form: Free verse
Dove Bleeds Poppies
I'm but a frail bird tasked to bring hope and spread peace.
How shall I fly high in the sky with such a brittle burden!
My heart...

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Categories: aircraft, sorrow, war,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Average Age 19
Once again, the powers that must
In rise again in what we trust
An overseas conflict, another war
Just what in the hell are we fighting for

Families are...

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Categories: aircraft, angst, death, family, father,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member - Norway In Virus Quarantine -
A significantly different day
                 No bread or milk
empty for...

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Categories: aircraft, crazy, scary, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Frederic Bio
Take my hand, walk with me.
I'll show you fragments from my life.
Its broken sidewalks,silently paved by broken souls,
their anger pent up from a world war.
I'll...

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Categories: aircraft, life,
Form: Free verse
He Had To Start Crying
He Had to Start Crying

Was terrifying,
So he had to start crying;
People were dying.

The hopes and fears of all the years
Did not create any crocodile tears
Were...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: aircraft, sad,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Crater Lake
Crater Lake

Looking down high above in sunny skies
A view through aircraft window down below...
A sublime scene of beauty cast in eyes
Of a crater lake, crowned...

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Categories: aircraft, beautiful, january, snow, winter,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Stranger Than Fiction Part 4
I  continued down the driveway and then came to a stop, damn, I thought I’ve come down the wrong driveway it must be further...

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Categories: aircraft, death, religious, world war
Form: Prose
Premium Member Embryonic Time Travelers
Time travel has always fascinated man
Could UFOs be steered by human hands
Consider this premise before you say no
So called “grays” resemble human embryos

Evolution proceeds, gene...

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Categories: aircraft, science, visionaryautumn, may,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Reflection on the Important Things