IRON MAIDEN
...Sponsor : Robert James Ligouri
IRON MAIDEN
Iron maiden was she
fathered from loins of
Zeus flow free ~
surrounded by swords
steely three, icicle aura
bounded hounded
innocence thor...
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Categories:
colonels, allegory, allusion, character, courage,
Form: Alliteration
Popcorn Prophets
...armageddon heat
false prophets are popping up
colonels eating oil
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Categories:
colonels, religious, war,
Form: Senryu
before the war
...Born before the war
The sky was sullen and sorrowful
was the mist smoke from hot cannons
on crackling radios, people listened to
a man shrieking and thought
what a useless idiot
my birth w...
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Categories:
colonels, appreciation, arabic, art, beach,
Form: Blank verse
Crazy Maize
...A woman who works shucking corn
Tells jokes that are Iowan born
Just lend her an ear
And you're bound to hear
How colonels can milk a French horn...
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Categories:
colonels, word play,
Form: Limerick
The Dolphin and I
...The Dolphin and I.
I think it was in 1967 when the Junta of Greek coronels
took power, I was in Piraeus on holiday
the water on the stretch is calm, and one day I met a dolphin
we swam side by...
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Categories:
colonels, best friend, cinderella, dance,
Form: Blank verse
Disunity Then Unity
...DISUNITY THEN UNITY
Last Episode of Pure Fantasy.
Fireball always seems to take center stage,
Except in the last episode it was with absolute rage,
Echoman has secretly loved this ravishing ...
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Categories:
colonels, universe, war,
Form: Free verse
Watch Out For the Edges
...got pigeon holed early in an obstacle race
called a fifties town culture and army base
[...nuns...ex colonels and sergeants for teachers...]
died many deaths but weathered the scars
mind can ...
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Categories:
colonels, absence, adventure, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
A Scout's Farewell
...One final farewell
My career and all her
euphoric ironies
The end of the Road
like a Boys to Men
Harmony
I woke up one
November morning
and life came crashing in
That's the way it happens
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Categories:
colonels, work,
Form: Free verse
Ewe No a Lyre
...This is my Homophone contest submission
Ewe No A Lyre
their once was a man with a bore
who worked down at the local bizarre
the bore eight corn colonels four lunch
and blew genes whi...
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Categories:
colonels, confusion, humor, imagination, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Private Schlink's Musings On the Vietnam War
...Gawd! I awoke this morning wondering what I'm doing in this miserable place!
I thought the oath I took was to defend America's shores, not a foreign race!
The French made a mess and ran, now, Amer...
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Categories:
colonels, warwar, home, america, home,
Form: Rhyme
A War Part 1
...DAWN
Disagreement the reason of the war
Day, place and time is set
Arrangements begins. Arsenals are emptied
Recruitment had finished, training almost done
The day comes, marching begins
In...
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Categories:
colonels, death, imagination, peace, sad,
Form: Ballade