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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: dunkirk, courage, world war ii,
Form: Etheree



Premium Member There Was Once a Man From Dunkirk
There abided an old dude in Dunkirk

   Who was a deacon in the parish kirk

      He cast his...

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Categories: dunkirk, funny
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Man From Dunkirk
There once was a man from Dunkirk
Who always was late for his work.
This man was so lazy,
He drove his wife crazy.
She stabbed him awake with...

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Categories: dunkirk, funny
Form: Limerick
Down In Dunkirk
The once was a man from Dunkirk.
The war came and he went berserk.
In the French battle field,
Local harlots did yield.
Escape came by fancy footwork.

© January...

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Categories: dunkirk, political, social
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Remember
That time of year has come again
When we reflect and remember them
Polish our boots and press our kit
Remember those fallen that didn't make it

We shine...

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Categories: dunkirk, memorial day, military, veterans
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Security In Jeopardy
The Social Security system

Is struggling to find a sound rhythm

     If Grandpa survives

     Past Age 65

Will Feds...

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Categories: dunkirk, funny
Form: Limerick
Tobruk Siege
Tobruk  Siege

Rommel of the Blitzkrieg 
had Europe overcome
With the Stukas and dive bombing
And the Tanks that overrun

North Africka would see his tanks
il Duce’s troops...

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Categories: dunkirk, adventure
Form: Rhyme
Sunday Best
SUNDAY BEST or A Soldier’s Coup of Grace

Was always smartest one in his brigade
A pride in his appearance was consistent
Though beach at Dunkirk was no...

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Categories: dunkirk, war,
Form: Sonnet
A Haunted Green Sea
I am haunted by a sea of green eyes
A whole people fleeing the terror of death dropping skies
I'm hating the government and their murderous lies
These...

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© Zoe Orrell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dunkirk, war,
Form: Free verse
Soldier of Ages
Dedicated to  Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) 


I'd fought a hundred battles 
   ...

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Categories: dunkirk, memorial day, patriotic, soldier,
Form: Sonnet
There Was Once a Nerd
There was once a nerd so eager to lurk
Well fed up with his life and his cattle
So  he took off with a boat
But that...

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Categories: dunkirk, funny
Form: Limerick
Alice Mulligan
Alice Mulligan hailed from Killsoul
A red head who had a strange role
A brothel, she ran
Till one day a strange man
Sent Miss Mulligan right up the...

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Categories: dunkirk, funnyday,
Form: Limerick
That Must'Ve Hurt
There once was a young man from New Paltz
Who performed tricks at bowling league halls
One day with his yo-yo
His teammates screamed: "OH, NO!"
When the darn...

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Categories: dunkirk, funny
Form: Limerick
The Little Boats of World War 2
>We have just remembered the ending of the Second World War VE day it's called.  My father, well stepfather was a member of the...

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Categories: dunkirk, anxiety, beach, boat, confusion,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Curiosity
As a child it was fun and quite daring
To ogle what the other was carrying
We hid in the loft
Where we played quite oft
To inspect what...

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Categories: dunkirk, childhood,
Form: Limerick

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