Best Airman Poems

Limerick : Once an Airman who couldn’t stand his wife

Once an Airman who couldn’t stand his wife
Was going out of his mind with strife
Took to the clouds with spouse
Called her names like : »Leech ! Louse ! »
Then jumped out plane to sentence for life.

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Long lines of vapour split blue skies asunder
Fly vengeful raptors, one thousand in number
Headlong they go, to brave death or glory
Stratosphere flight, part of war's brutal story

Last year a schoolboy but this year an ace
Did I see the twitch of fear on his face?
Fly like...

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It was his first flight,
He had desired lofty height.

He loved fighter jets,
He talked about it on his dates.

Though he failed his enrolment exams twice,
He knew life is like throwing dice.

Sky flight was his all-time favourite movie,    
Unlike the bird’s movie, Covey.

He passed...

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To The Forgotten

Military history is written by the victors.
Generals and politicians who stamp
their names on the pages of books
written by men and women in ivory towers.

It is actually made by the common:
legionnaire, dog face, doughboy, airman,
seaman and marine. Most names unknown
to those that write the...

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