Best Expeditionary Poems
The Amistad Mutiny...The Amistad Mutiny
Slavery, a dirty word no matter how it’s pronounced:
Abducted and herded to the slave fortress of Lomboko1 for trade.
To be tossed in chains below deck on the Po......
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Categories:
expeditionary, africa, america, history, racism,
Form:
Verse
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 British Expeditionary Force. He was injured and evacuated by one of th......
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Categories:
expeditionary, anxiety, beach, boat, confusion,
Form:
Gallipoli...In you the Dogs of War unleashed again
an Expeditionary Force by sea,
and in the ground in years fourscore and ten
lie bones of Empire and Admiralty.
How in muddy trench riflemen joining
......
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Categories:
expeditionary, war,
Form:
Sonnet
Battle of Beersheba...
I
“Charge!” they said and charge they led
from out of a dry desert wadi.
Every man of the Light Horse Brigade
across the desert thundered -
their pulsin......
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Categories:
expeditionary, courage, history, war,
Form:
Narrative
The Seventies Score...If I said "you had a beautiful body" don't hide,
I never lied though I may have tried
please "would you hold it against me,"
I coulda been your "Love Machine"
and you......
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Categories:
expeditionary, eulogy,
Form:
Rhyme