Best Spitfires Poems

RISKS
Scarred hills, risked mine shafts, dark and deep. 
The plonk of a stone,  dropped into water, far below.
Kids drifted to sounds of the gold-rush,...

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"Road to Lovejoy - Piano for the Self Taught" (Part 2)


His name was
Flight Left-Tennant V.C.Burton,
or "Victor Charlie Bravo", when he
got pulled over by the cops,...

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Disability, Illness and Fundamentalism

My brother died of Cystic Fibrosis, 
When I was twelve and he fourteen, 
It took away his ambitions, 
To study at Oxford...

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"19 Davenport"



Spitfires lined in regimental row
Amberley in Autumn
fuel burns on the runway
mirages burn slow

Wings counted

His Adjutant's pad 
counts dollars and time, 
cold and sharp, he...

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Do silence them
Do prick the mortal flesh
Spin a web in what they bleed
And chain them to the garden gate

Maidens of the high teas
Casting a tower...

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>I must be honest, being new to this poetry, I do not understand half the terms describing types of poems, hence you will see a...

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I spied the dark little spitfires
fork-tailed and white breasted,
over the river bank
and then my head they crested
 
Then the couple would part
to scour the tops...

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Spare change was rare at our house when I was a lad,
But you could bet on it, when I got a quarter from my Dad,
I...

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Balcony birds eye view
Tiny gardens as tin soldiers
Tight in a row
Some as spoilt cherished children 
Desired domains
Some have dinked  boxes
Former relished
Remains....yet still standing
 
One...

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Supermen in death machines, 
\were driven off, 
hot lead was seen,
 twas Hitler's Albatross.
the Nazis so obscene,
clawed from the skies the cost,
Brave men in Spitfires...

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Hawker Hurricane was his plane.
 Karubin was chasing a German fighter
 at tree top level, when his Hurricane
 had run out of ammunition.
 
Karubin closed...

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Look here, Tiger.
Back off,
or your tennis
balls might get caught.

In my own talons,
of course.

Stronger now
this rubbery
slope.

And I slip inside
my spinal column
to avoid your
spitfires.

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Jumped by fighters
Hiding in the Sun
Firing Brownings and Hispanos
Young lad was on the run

But quick the fighters learned
Their surprise was for naught
Soon they were the...

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Frisky
frolicsome
ace acrobats
defying gravity
like that

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Skipping
across lawn
arching, rippling
endless sassy-fussing
spitfires...

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His restless wolves still taunt each dauntless ship,
though sly attrition neutralized their hunt,
for subterfuge let not a whisper slip
as vantage shifted on the battlefront.
A riddle...

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