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...

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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...

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I opened the old broken gate,
And strolled up the overgrown garden path,
It was the end of winter, still chilly
My car had broken down; I do...

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Twas a lovely day in May.

A red-haired Grandmother, with her daughter and 
grandchild strolled the soft, still grass.
Under a large pine tree, she unwrapped a...

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One morning, when I was stationed at base operations in Subic, I had a
telephone call. A Filipino shipyard worker had died during the night-shift,
on the...

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How I'd relish standing Obama at a brace and show him how to salute!
He's shown zero respect to the Marines and I suppose he thinks...

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Three cousins played a “game’ of war
A map of Europe spread across the floor
No adults there to keep the score
As each of them wanted more...

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There have been times in our land
When our nation has had to take a stand.

It first began at Bunker's Hill
Where so many men were then...

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MY FIRST FRENCH KISSES
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS

My first french kiss; I was lanky, skinny, barely fifteen
I had the hots for the popcorn girl, she was eighteen
She...

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The Air Force
By Franklin Price
1/18/2017

The Air Force  means so much to me
Started nineteen-sixty-five
Left college and enlisted
To mature and survive

Received an education
I would use throughout...

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Paper preparer please find cherry terror jackfrreeze frost frozen ice cycle are called and not chosen God fearing beware betrayal falls to all chosen green...

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The conductor stopped by my seat and advised me that we would soon be entering the Philadelphia rail-yards where the baggage car would be added...

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Plentiful the storeroom as I return my kit
Everything an Airman needed for a career
Returned this last day

Air Force veteran is my new name
Retired medically for...

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A long long time ago
Before digital took over the planet.
My grandfather was n airman in WW2.
He never dropped a single bomb
or even fired a weapon...

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haibun

her heart's overwhelmed
as her Valentine returns
from Afghanistan


In cahoots with the local mailman, Airman Louis Patrillos hides out-of-sight as the postman returns the special valentine his...

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