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Premium Member We Will Visit You In Tennessee
...We will visit your girl scout camp we promised our daughter. Headed down to Tennessee on a Saturday morning like we ought’er. Arrived around six a.m. thinking the campers would be awake. No one wa......

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Categories: bunkmate, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Visiting Our Daughters Girl Scout Camp In Tennessee
...We will visit your Girl Scout camp we promised our daughter. Headed down to Tennessee on a Saturday morning like we ought’er. Arrived around six a.m. thinking the campers would be awake. No one wa......

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Categories: bunkmate, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member What Would This Scallywag Know
...It was one of those nights that a rapscallion would swoon our pirate ship glided almost silently by the light of the moon we were stealthily advancing on a world we did not know They would experie......

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Categories: bunkmate, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member It Will Be Fun They Said
...Come sign up, they said. It will be fun. It is wonderful. You will love it. Two recruiters to my ego fed Ideas of how great I would be, a perfect fit. It was the Gulf War, nothing big. Nothing......

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Categories: bunkmate, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mission Incomplete Eagle Failure
...All you have to do is swoop down in front of a grade school, grab up a kindergarten student, and fly off. This will strike terror in everyone, my commander told me. He laughed at my surprised look.......

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Categories: bunkmate, fantasy,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Wake Up Call
...WAKE UP CALL Our Navy boom box - “Reveille Reveille ladies! It’s time to wake up!” Never laid under covers, took too long to make the bed. Talk about a time table! Never learned to ......

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Categories: bunkmate, christmas, memory, military,
Form: Narrative
Rest In Peace, Year of Survival
...Far away in a distant land Where nobody knew my name I carved out a throne of ice And buried myself in the womb of winter The Reaper held my hand And the other held piles of pills I shakily h......

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Categories: bunkmate, introspection,
Form: Free verse
My Home
...No wonder snail keeps to its shell And tortoise prefers its crap Ocean homes fish exclusively Balance diet makes no cage home for bird Nest is a chosen home for its kind My bed So spacious so comfo......

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Categories: bunkmate, adventure, home, home,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Gus
...Many are the 'characters' I met while serving my nation. Seems there's always one who stands out in every organization! In Bermuda (where I fought the Korean War) was such a cuss. He was my bunkma......

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Categories: bunkmate, funny, may,
Form: Rhyme
I'M Lost America Freedom
...< in this land of milk and honey want my world be nice and sunny but for others what will that cost ......

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Categories: bunkmate, caregiving, confusion, education, family,
Form: Kyrielle

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