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Canteens Poems - Poems about Canteens

They got the whole world in their hands
...They got the whole world in their hands Worth north of a trillion dollars, (plus or minus a billion dollars here and there), the unnamed obscenely rich, (which top 15 billionaires projected to......

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Categories: canteens, america, anger, angst, bullying,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jill and Lucille
...Jill and Lucille are two very hungry slugs They often dine out at their local garden food hubs. Lettuce, flowers, fruits, sunflowers and beans These are a few choices from these veggie canteens. ......

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Categories: canteens, friend, nature, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Ft Leonard Wood Mo 1961
... Ft Leonard Wood Mo.1961 Combat Engineers Miracle Man 10/18/2024 Most days we awoke feeling quite asinine, choice wasn’t to get up or remain supine. The bugle was telling us rise and......

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Categories: canteens, angst, character, military, motivation,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Captive
... held captive his fleshy lips quiver in an oasis of rusted canteens ......

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Categories: canteens, surreal, water,
Form: Free verse
Nigerian Police Station
...Once, I was there to check a tall Zaki And it became reason to meet khaki, Very clean but most offices tacky: A cop could turn one into a lackey! I know The Police is for the Nation But I sha......

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Categories: canteens, africa, allusion, corruption, cry,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Vultures Circling - Part One
... I'd just checked out of a hotel in the town of Santa Fe Went to the store to collect supplies and went on my way I was heading for the gold rush in the state of California And had register......

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Categories: canteens, america, death, girl, horse,
Form: Narrative
Long Trails
...Vibram lugs 2 inches thick for edge work back when I was so young with mountains to climb the leather uppers with mink oil spread in the oven baked again and again Mountains I climb......

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Categories: canteens, poetry,
Form: Free verse
2035 the End - Cop26 I
...The old fashioned monsoons Meant for the flowers and cacti of Arizona California And New Mexico Have fled those deserts and dusty reservoirs To find a new friend instead in Michigan Up here in......

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Categories: canteens, death, earth, environment, future,
Form: Free verse
What If
...What if.. What if; it wasn't a lockdown forenoon Mommies whisking to kitchenette Daddy's out with newspaper headlines Little cubs denned in their late quilt and wishing no schooling today ......

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Categories: canteens, 12th grade, beauty, conflict,
Form: Epigram
A Peaceful Army
...A PEACEFUL ARMY Special soldiers went to war Some being not so young. Enlisted to do their duty, But would never fire a gun. They wore a different uniform, Which displayed a red shield. Th......

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Categories: canteens, war,
Form: Rhyme
Two Cowboys In the Badlands
...“Let ‘em loose,” came his bellowing yell, “I got 3,000 head I gotta to sell, Goin' 1,000 miles in weather that's hell, You're all gonna sweat and all gonna smell”- The boss’s eyes on ten cowboy......

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Categories: canteens, adventure, character, conflict, culture,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hiding Out In the Badlands
...At last, a refuge from the wind and sand Afraid of the posse that was still on their heels Now they could loose themselves in the badlands Wondering why they had ever decided to steal The horse......

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Categories: canteens,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Haiku 38
...as we walk pots clink against canteens – squirrels chatter......

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Categories: canteens, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Army Dependant
...Mr and Mrs private first class stationed in Augsburg 15th battalion second Calvary division canteens and sea rashins were being distributed while we had four more court martials. lined outsid......

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Categories: canteens, adventure,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Turkish Chant
...we gathered our canteens while coughing up tar from the hidden gravel across high terrain through the mist of Ankara teal fabric blew in the.breeze over burnt orange fragments torn from my t......

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Categories: canteens, adventure,
Form: Chant Royal

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