Best Lt Poems
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 hours’
Bones: ‘Jim, is this a medical issue?’
Kirk: ......
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Categories:
lt, parody, science fiction,
Form:
Narrative
return to Flanders fields -...
my brittle bones are like this fence, so built
on throes of horrors shrouded with the hilt
of war's inanely senseless blade, now dulled
by all the precious soul......
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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 the Param Vr Chakra
the hi......
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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 brimstone in these sinister currents, that spin! A black river between two ......
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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......
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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 listen to my coach,
lt my waist bend,
to move fro......
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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
through the ages past and new
I'd been a lowly foot soldier
But a......
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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 jack of all trades and a master of none <He once said.
Loved ......
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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 I am missing you so much! Robert
When Albin Gruhn got his card from the ......
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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 to defend an outlying territory
Jesse fought as hard as ......
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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 Dad and I am missing you so much! Robert
When Albin Gruhn got his card f......
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Categories:
lt, father, mother, parents,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
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 dream for good
for a boy in his prime
who's run out of his tim......
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Categories:
lt, betrayal, war,
Form:
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 what you believe in now, is true;
then, make......
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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 question......
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Categories:
lt, anniversary, bereavement, betrayal, body,
Form:
Blank verse
The First Game of Spring...The first game of spring
It was the first game of the year.
The go lumpducks vs the hot rugcats.
On 1st base for the hot rugcats is: Tiny judy mad cat
On 2nd is Flash betty furball
At short sto......
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Categories:
lt, baseball, cat, funny, humorous,
Form:
Free verse