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Best Airstrip Poems


Amalia's Sea
...the sea is beautiful
rocking
with foamy waves
storm and flightless
The sea was once
                      her airstrip

hiding the borders
sky's sea and earth
she loved

fly
clouds and wa......

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Categories: airstrip, love,
Form: Free verse
Musinga
...From Rusizi in Rwanda 
lies a historical site that is linked to the Musinga history, 
a palace next to the elegant tree (umuvumu) in the Rukali village
behind the Kamembe Airstrip in Rusizi distri......

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Categories: airstrip, africa, child, community, cousin,
Form: ABC
Milne Bay Battle 1942
...The first time the Japanese were stopped in World War 2... 
was 7th of September 1942...(Before Gaudacanal fight was finished)...they retreated then
back  to Rabaul after heavy fighting with the Au......

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Categories: airstrip, war
Form: Ballad

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Pip Pip Hurray
...Sending the tending to an unfriended ending,
 yet somehow suspending from rending a newly offending recommending.
Logotype monotype linotype,
overripe stereotype,
 teletyped an unripe heliotype. ......

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© Amra Cau  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: airstrip,
Form: Verse
One Day At B Med
...Litter bearers burst unexpectedly 
in with a casualty.  Sergeant Lindsey 
grabs one pole end, then BOOM!, the roof and rear
end of our frail little hooch disappear.  

A swirl of black, smokey blue s......

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© John Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: airstrip, war,
Form: Couplet
Uss Harry S. Truman
...Aboard Harry S Truman, CVN 75
Monumental battle ship, 
Within her hull, she seemed alive

Floating city, hauling a deadly airstrip
Creating peace, in the middle East, with the fatal Tomcat
Crew......

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© Amy Green  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: airstrip, adventure
Form: Terza Rima



A Teacher Above All Else
...A clear view of the Arabian blue
I don’t ‘inch’ closer, I ‘mile’ ahead 
In a relaxed cockpit, shared by two.

A proud teacher, my knowledge I spread
‘To fly they must have flown before’
Break t......

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Categories: airstrip, death, history, introspection, loss,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member My Last Las Vegas Ces
...My Last Las Vegas C.E.S. (1)
(A Memorial Poem)
I long counted Steve Bristow a friend (1) and we'd fly off to lunch
some days (Steve would get 'hours......

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Categories: airstrip, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
When I Am Broke I Write a Poem
...When I am broke
I write a poem
I make myself the hero
In my poem, nobody can stop me
Out, I hop from my S-Class Benz 
Into my waiting Lamborgini to my private airstrip
......

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Categories: airstrip, analogy, imagery, imagination,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Wheat and the Tare
...They crept upon our shores eating away the inner core
They crept upon our shore knocking on our barricade doors
Tall stout men with peevish eyes and strange looks on their white faces
Invade our q......

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Categories: airstrip, community, conflict, confusion, death,
Form: Narrative
Disputation
...It doesn't matter how long
I have been on this ship,
it doesn't  matter how long
I have been on this plane,
nor does it matter the time I spend on this road,
looking for solidarity,
It is just ......

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Categories: airstrip, forgiveness, friend, friendship, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
Reconsidering
...The red tail light of the 737 flashed rhythmically against the dark skyline

It taxied its approach on the runway, everything was set, it all looked fine

She looked out the window across the dar......

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Categories: airstrip, angst, devotion, hope, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Martha's Animal Logic
...We agree before any trip 
Exactly how livestock will ship
But with notice not
Venezuelans got
To the Martha’s Vineyard airstrip


Author's note: Pundits and politicians say Governor DeSantis o......

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Categories: airstrip, abuse, animal, anti bullying,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Let's Go To Robotville
...I have the greatest of the great ideas!” My husband said. 
“Best one I have ever had!” He uses this line weekly 
Since he is in sales, and we have been married a long time 
I did not drop my I-pad......

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Categories: airstrip, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
Rag Bagger With Notes
...__________________   RAG BAGGER


      What is a blowboat
      which way does the warm wind blow
      Im lashed to the mast


      GINSU - KNIFE     EASTPORT , MAINE   USA


    Ginsu ......

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Categories: airstrip, adventure, allegory, america, analogy,
Form: Haiku

Book: Reflection on the Important Things