Best Patton Poems

Luxurious lady on a heavenly hike
sHe was so christ like
go Tend to the sick and shut in  as a leisure labor 
epiTomizing a godly behavior
a livIng likeness of christ
was on Earth

bowing Presence- she was of god
her soul Annointed
true righTeousness embedded 
throughouT her heart
an earthly...

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Pistol-proud, Virginia-vain,
Deaf to danger, numb to pain,
Born a century too late,
George Patton spat at Fate.

Underneath the bombshell’s burst,
He knew this was not the first
Blood of enemies he’d spilled,
Nor the first age when he’d killed.

Once a prehistoric Celt,
Then a legionnaire who felt
Glee at gashing Jesus’ side;
Later,...

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both loved and disliked
General "Old Blood and Guts"—
triumph and ordeal...

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High ranking General George S. Patton.
His mission the enemy to flatten.
To his troops he exclaimed without blinking,
If everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn’t thinking.
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The timid 
find courage
in the well
— of another’s fear

(Valley Forge Park: February, 2024) 


Call Me Ishmael

Mediocre writing
spawns editing 
The Great Works
— born unchanged

‘Thoughts of: Bob Dylan, Laura Nyro, John Lennon, Steve Winwood, Kris Kristofferson’
(February: 2024)
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