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Premium Member 30,000 Lt Calleys- the My Lai Massacre
March 16, 1968 Viet Nam
    30,000 Lt. Calleys
There's a sound in the dark
of a shot to its' mark
and it's ended a dream...

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© Vee Bdosa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lt, adventure, death, fear, hate,
Form: I do not know?



Star Trek and Captain Kirk's Final Frontier
Kirk: ‘Lt. Uhura, come to my quarters at 1800 hours’
Uhura: ‘Yes captain, might I ask what’s up?’
Kirk: ‘Nothing now but something WILL be at 1800...

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Categories: lt, parody, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member return to Flanders fields -
my brittle bones are like this fence, so built
          on throes of horrors shrouded with the...

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Categories: lt, history, loss, war,
Form: Rhyme
The Battle For Tiger Hill
It was  nineteen ninety nine
a battle was about to begin
between the Indian Army
with the soldiers from Pakistan

My name is Yogendra Singh Yadav
a grenadier awarded...

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Categories: lt, history,
Form: Rhyme
A Quiet River
Along a quiet river to nowhere were styx lean like broken crosses. The wind is gentle with a sent of quite decay or is that...

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Categories: lt, adventure, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form: Rhyme



Autumn Cannibalism (1936)
Heads propped aloft by the crutch of dogmatic belief,
savoring each other, feasting upon flesh--
     knife and fork,
     delicate spoon.

Each course far from complete, they gorge through
eroded faces,...

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© John Weber  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lt, art, nature, war
Form: Free verse
A Boxers Prayer
Lord,let my legs move,
so i can walk to the middle of the ring,
let my arms work hard
to gather many points.

Lord,let my ears hear,
so i can...

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Categories: lt, sports, me, me,
Form: Sonnet
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: lt, memorial day, patriotic, soldier,
Form: Sonnet
He Was a Farmer
He Was A Farmer
He was a farmer for most of his life.
A friend to all that came along.
Would help anyone with a dollar or more.
A...

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Categories: lt, death, lost,
Form: Free verse
About My Father - Albin - Who Has Passed Away - So Proud of You Dad - Greatest Labor Leader Ever
The following is about my beloved father Albin J. Gruhn who passed away at the age of 94 years young. I Love You Dad and...

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Categories: lt, father, hero, leadership, life,
Form: Narrative
In An Unknown Grave He Lies
This is about a man whose name is Jesse
Born In Kansas and raised in Missouri
 Was called to fight for his beloved country
And  assigned...

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© John Boak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lt, death, family, death, heart,
Form: Elegy
Happy Father's Day With Mom In Heaven Dad - I Love and Miss Both of You
For my Dad and Mom (Dorothy) on Fathers Day.

 Albin J. Gruhn who passed away at the age of 94 years young. I Love You...

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Categories: lt, father, mother, parents,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member The My Lai Massacre 1968
30,000 Lt. Calleys - LEST WE FORGET
The My Lai Massacre - 1968
There's a sound in the dark
of a shot to its' mark
and it's ended a...

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© Vee Bdosa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lt, betrayal, war,
Form: I do not know?
The Audacity of Love
lt can greet you as an equal
compliment you like a friend,

can produce a new beginning
or, assault you with an end.

lt can trick you into thinking
that...

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Categories: lt, fear, friendship, inspirational, lost
Form: Lyric
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies grow;
Their roots reach down to twine amongst the bones,
The mouldering bones.

Each skull in grinning disbelief voices 
Its eternal...

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Categories: lt, anniversary, bereavement, betrayal, body,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Shattered Sighs