neither wanted to give up the costume
...They fell in love at a Star Wars Convention
When the marriage fell apart,
I thought they would stop dressing like 3-CPO
Neither wanted to give up the costume
To this extent
They both attended th...
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Categories:
cpo, divorce,
Form: Prose Poetry
Christmas Without You
...I sit here in front of my husband
Overlooking a small pond
Pine trees with pinecones on them
A bird flits from one head stone
to the next, staring at me
The speckled granite ston...
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Categories:
cpo, christmas, grief,
Form: Free verse
Memorial Day Remembrance
...Sitting on the old black oak, where we used to fish together,
lost in the past, I think back, and remember a better day.
You wrote to me about your new ship, and new friends,
and your new Pontiac,...
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Categories:
cpo, appreciation, remembrance day, river,
Form: Narrative
My Dad Drowned
...My Dad Drowned
Air, land and sea does seem all around,
And another challenge have newly found;
Did know,
Was long ago;
In Med my dad had ended up drowned?
CPO Arthur Frederick Horn, AOC
US...
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Categories:
cpo, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
My Ocean Wave
...My Ocean Wave
Sounds to me like my ocean wave,
Where sailors died and is their grave;
Over my dad's grave it does flow;
Was to us such a serious blow.
Near Sicily location is two miles off o...
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Categories:
cpo, allegory, analogy, death,
Form: Couplet
My Dad Really Did Die
...My Dad Really Did Die
My dad is buried in the sea so deep,
Off of Sicily where he now does sleep;
God, there please comfortably keep,
While I am counting more sheep.
Jim Horn
Drowned of...
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Categories:
cpo, allegory, analogy, death,
Form: Couplet
Hillary and Hair Horn Haiku
...Hillary and Hair Horn Haiku
With you secret I should share
Hillary and messed up hair
More she must take care.
Looks like she just got
out of the shower lately.
James Thesarious Hilariou...
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Categories:
cpo, allegory, analogy, humorous,
Form: Haiku
In Memory of Arthur Frederick Horn
...Repost of In Memory of Arthur Frederick Horn
Dad Did Die
Why was it really meant to be?
Dad did die serving his country
Me and my family are left alone
Each day when the sun had shone.
I ...
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Categories:
cpo, sad,
Form: Couplet
My Dead Dad
...Dad Did Die
Why was it really meant to be?
Dad did die serving his country
And me and my family were left alone
Each day when the sun had shone.
I am still so lonely each night
And sad tear...
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Categories:
cpo, analogy, appreciation, , memorial,
Form: Couplet
Then I Cried and Cried Horn Haiku
...Then I Cried and Cried Horn Haiku
Before never cried;
Until one day my dad died
And I cried and cried.
My dad was killed on the Aircraft Carrier Intrepid.
It is in New York Harbor with my da...
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Categories:
cpo, bereavement, sad, , memorial,
Form: I do not know?
God Give His Holy Blessing
...God Give His Holy Blessing
So many soldiers today want to embellish
Who we all should forever try to relish
Saw badges and medals worn by them
We now sing and offer this humble hymn.
There i...
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Categories:
cpo, encouraging,
Form: Couplet
Dad Died Serving Country
...Dad Did Die
Why was it really meant to be?
Dad did die serving his country
Me and my family are left alone
Each day when the sun had shone.
I am still so lonely each night
And sad tears off...
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Categories:
cpo, tribute, veterans day,
Form: Couplet
Free Lifetime Premium Membership
...I should be entitled to a free Lifetime Premium Membership according to my wife and friends around me. My father CPO Arthur Frederick Horn was killed on active duty on the Carrier Intrepid after 20 y...
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Categories:
cpo, history,
Form: Free verse
Dad Did Die
...Dad Did Die
Why was it really meant to be?
Dad did die serving his country
And me and my family were left alone
Each day when the sun had shone.
I am still so lonely each night
And sad tears off ha...
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Categories:
cpo, patriotic, , memorial,
Form: Couplet