Best Sargeant Poems
Sargeant Steven FarhnomSargeant!
SIR.
As you were.
We must take hill 43.
Air strike,
First.
Then the worst.
You'll lose half your company.
Cooper, Johnson,
O'Riely, Smith.
Another Mission;
This is OUR fifth.
Charge! said Sarge.
And charge We did.
Into a living HELL.
Death the only smell.
Should Company B forget this place.
There lies O'Riely, without a face.
Coopers' leg still on the...
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Categories:
sargeant, death, war
Form:
Rhyme
The Sargeant MajorI'll always remember Granpa Shreeve
At Eaton Road,where he & Gran dwelt;
A wide thick buckled trouser belt,
No collar,braces & rolledup shirt sleeve.
He kept hens at the bottom of his patch
His old soldier' straight back bent in a stoop,
Collecting eggs from his home-made coop,
Each day letting...
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Categories:
sargeant, childhood, family, nostalgia
Form:
Sonnet
Clerihew SargeantJohn Singer Sargeant
daffodil still life his bent
Colours to amaze
as art held his gaze...
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Categories:
sargeant, art, people,
Form:
Clerihew
Sargeant FarhnomSargeant!
SIR.
As you were.
We must take hill 43.
Air strike,
First.
Then the worst.
You'll lose half your company.
Cooper, Johnson,
O'Riely, Smith.
Another Mission;
This is OUR fifth.
Charge! said Sarge.
And charge We did.
Into a living HELL.
Death the only smell.
Should Company B forget this place.
There lies O'Riely, without a face.
Coopers' leg still on the...
Continue reading...
Categories:
sargeant, death, friendship, war
Form:
Rhyme