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Premium Member The Dread of Battle
Shrill whistle blew as we crossed over the wire
Charged at the Germans who opened fire 
Those who had run up ahead
Fell first; now lay dead,...

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Categories: germans, fear, god, world war
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Die Another Day
“Die Another Day”


“Your mission, should you so deem it,
Is to infiltrate ALL Fluff Clusters in K.A.O.S. Headquarters
And bloody well steam it!”


“The Place is a hazardous...

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Categories: germans, fantasy, fun, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Poem For My History Teacher
I wanted to write
 The best slavery poem   ever written—
Perhaps win a Pulitzer or Faulkner. 

I had every intention of conforming 
To the...

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Categories: germans, assonance, forgiveness, history, holocaust,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member World War 11 Through the Eyes of My Mom
WORLD WAR 11 THROUGH THE EYES OF MY MOM
POEM NO. 1 OF TRILOGY

World war 11 was nearing its end, 
The Nazis losing ground
In Russia, been...

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Categories: germans, war,
Form: Rhyme
Wales 1 Germany 0
WALES 1 GERMANY didn’t

The Germans take great pride
In long words measured by the clock
But can they compete when vied
With Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch...

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Categories: germans, language,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Fall of a Wall
The GDR put up a wall
in ‘61 because
they wanted West Berlin kept out.
A wall of shame it was!

In fact, the West more easily
could travel all...

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Categories: germans, freedom, history,
Form: Quatrain
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: germans, courage, world war ii,
Form: Etheree
Premium Member Memories of the Sea
Ah the lovely seasdie
Ah the lovely seaside

Childhood scents
Salt air, Salty bitter memories

Jacques had turned just seven
He dreamed to walk along the seashore
He dreamed to see...

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Categories: germans, caregiving, confusion, death, sea,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Weeping
Let me tell you a sad story, a true story . . .

     In another time, under the dictatorship of Adolf...

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Categories: germans, racism,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Why the Rose Bled
Parents so proud four sons they raised
From the Highlands of Scotland in the pre-war days
On their crofts they worked morning till night
Unknown to them then...

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Categories: germans, africa, angst, bereavement, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Wall and the Fence
Young Germans on the wrong side of a wall.
Imagine, if you can, their awful dread!
Before that great monstrosity can fall,
young Germans on the wrong side...

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Categories: germans, history,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member Chuck Jennings
The bombing of Pearl Harbour was the turning point for me
That day I enlisted in the army, despite protests from my family
I tried to reassure...

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Categories: germans, america, death, soldier, world
Form: Narrative
Sometimes It Takes Two To Be a Hero
The air was brittle with the cold
mud made life so very hard to bare.
Came to mind that maybe xmas is soon
Remembers roaring fires and christmas...

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Categories: germans, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
'a Child Unheard'
Hello there, what is your name?					
Do you like to play games?
What do you do for fun?
Play checkers, maybe run, Or dance, or just play?
I can’t...

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Categories: germans, history,
Form: Rhyme
Building a Wall
I'm writing this poem in the last days of 2018. The government of the United States is shut down in a fight over the building...

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Categories: germans, america, freedom, history, political,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Shattered Sighs