Best Drills Poems

...Trees clear.
Falls here. 

Docs pills
Cure ills.

Dim glow 
Wick low. 

Turn key
Lock free. 

Mist cloud 
Grey shroud. 

Big weir 
Stay clear. 

Wasp sting
Red ring. 

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...Oklahoma cowboy, tough coal miner’s son
Born in Henryetta, south of Tulsa some
Raised by daddy’s momma, taught him wrong from right
Daddy taught him ropin’, taught him how to fight
 
Herding mad......

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It is 3:00 a.m. on an icy cold winter morning.
A piercing alarm shatters the silence at the station, and
he is sped away on a flashing red vehicle, horns blaring,
to respond to the emerg......

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...(Chorus)
You think you've got swagger but really you hobble,
you've got the jet lagger and you're drunk so you wobble,
don't start on me mate 'cus I will bring trouble,
to put it into slang words......

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...We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when the two of us shoot the......

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...I am not a detective or a sleuth, 
but what I write about is only the truth.
You are not going to like what I have to say, 
but the truth has to come out some way.

September 11, 2001 is what I ......

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...She'd entered my dwelling, my stalker a complete fatal attraction, mimicking my every move, simply distraught I was ,who could this intruder be, ripping pages on my Elliot Ness desk, pages I'd writte......

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...To ride the sea is a pleasure and a curse
as huddle of gulls, starfish dart from nowhere
enchanting frolic on breakers, they traverse
into buoyant laps with crystal tides so rare.
My arms......

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...I will never forget
The Sunday school my father taught,
Sitting cross-legged on veranda floor,
English, Maths,grammar and the lot,
hours of learning till bums went sore!

His skill in maths was......

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Day stacks upon day, forming opaque windows behind me. 
These can be blown away at times, a clarity of vision in momentary glimpses. 

Here, a face most beloved, turning my bowels to water tha......

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...In Jesus's day they got thrills from fire,
todays world we put wheels on flyers,
they didn't use drills to find supplies
and they hadn't the skills to fly the skies.

The Bible is wise and full ......

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...Been in the army for years
Devoted and committed
Sergeant Keys is a born Leader
His Army Soldiers understand
Base after Base at his command
Tough at Exercise drills
Be all you can be to fulfill......

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...Army BRAT’S Always ‘Wanna’ Fly High

The tradition necessitates that as a child born unto military parents
Called by the beloved acronym Born Raised and Trained (BRAT’S)
Be always on the spotligh......

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...I ate in an outdoor shed today;
The cold did not stand in my way.
I wasn’t bothered by the noise
Of traffic which, at times, annoys.

Construction sounds, like drills and booms
Or buses spewing......

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that look of innocence and expectation
that a future with promises awaits
their anticipation of clear blue skies
and hope that tomorrow will be brighter

that look of unadulterated naivete
on......

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