Doggerel
...I'd like to spend some time with you,
my dark and smooth draftee.
At dusk, when all my work is through,
I know you'll wait for me.
You're full of body, fair on top,
a bubble-head they say.
Yo...
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Categories:
draftee, drink, humor,
Form: Verse
Soupdom Draftee
...Just weeks after Dad died, I found my way here
Hoping unsettled emotions would disappear
Hope and warmth came from poets I’d never met
Artists helped me as pain I tried to forget
Their comments so ...
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Categories:
draftee, friendship, on writing and
Form: Couplet
Life's Key...
...Life is so uncertain, of that I‘m sure you will agree,
So I’d like to take time, to send a Thank You up to thee;
Thank You for my Friends, that are always there for me,
Thank You for the crazies, ...
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Categories:
draftee, faith, family, friendship, hope,
Form: Monorhyme
Private Roscoe D. Schlink's Induction Day
...Dear Folks: Just a few lines from your homesick army draftee.
Just twenty-four hours in the army and if it was left up to me,
I'd just as soon go home and forget the whole blamed thing.
I feel I'...
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Categories:
draftee, funnyme, old, me, old,
Form: Rhyme
Scars and Stripes
...They got them in service to their country
mementoes of it’s wars,
some for valor above and beyond
others for sweeping floors.
They all turned out in uniform
fulfilling the oath they took,
to ...
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Categories:
draftee, thank you,
Form: Ballad