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Enlistment Poems - Poems about Enlistment

Home 'Then And Now

...Home, was where you went at six pm. for supper,
for lunch when there was no school, and you were out
all morning playing.
Where special breakfasts were served on weekends.
Where you made your col...
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Categories: enlistment, home,
Form: Free verse

The War That Lost Score - Pt1

...To claim more imperialist Russian land. 
An invasion of a neighbor was planned. 
Unbacked slander was said about them. 
Creating for the world a major problem. 
Putin claimed they were a pro-Nazi...
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Categories: enlistment, anti bullying, bullying, grief,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberThe Enlistment

...The Enlistment
David J Walker

 As if a brave character in
A sad play he marched
In heavy boots to the old bus station
Feigning courage in the face of
Every uncertainty

Counting on the five...
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Categories: enlistment, farewell,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPrevalence Reality-

...The mountain calls for me
The Valleys in awe with me
What's wrong with me

The air and nature braces me
Cooling winds around me
What is wrong with me

Never Ending resistance
 Natur...
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Categories: enlistment, endurance, environment,
Form: Rhyme

D-Day

...As the sounds of war loudly  roar
	The thoughts of Freedom began to soar
For on that day of infamy 
	It changed the course of history 	
They didn’t ask to be attacked
	But patriotism became a we...
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Categories: enlistment, conflict, courage, freedom, hero,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberMilitary Bonuses

...Military Bonuses
By Franklin Price
10/25/2016

Military bonuses 
I'm hearing in the news
Are asking to be paid back
From the people that they choose

From the military people
Who signed up ...
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Categories: enlistment, abuse, betrayal, career, corruption,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMemorial Day 2

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Memorial Day 2 
“All gave some, Some gave all”
Written: by Tom Wright
2016

Today, we memorialize our soldier’s who lie at rest,
Many left families, perhaps some, with wife and child....
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Categories: enlistment, brother, freedom, memorial day,
Form: Lyric

Downhill Sledding and Skiing

...Downhill Skiing and Sledding

He had always found Hillary hard to face
Which is why Bernie runs all over the place
And he really never got to know her
Started sinking to depths that are lower.
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Categories: enlistment, humor, humorous,
Form: Couplet

To Joan of Arc

...Your courage unfettered by doubt or dismay
Your character tempered to battle display
Enlistment from spiritual beings on high
The question of conflict you chose to comply
Of youth, beauty you con...
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Categories: enlistment, betrayal, celebration, character, death,
Form: Ballad

Just a Soldier

...He celebrated his enlistment
And proudly showed the pictures of his plane,
A screaming bird emblazoned with the stars
And stripes. He joked about our home fried chicken
And kissed his baby sister...
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Categories: enlistment, missing you, patriotic, soldier,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCotton Bootie Enlistment

...Cotton Bootie Enlistment
             by Odin Roark

How innocent the booties of birth
If only their cast remembrance
Might remain but nostalgia
 
Instead

Their bronze symbolism
Merely encases a onc...
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Categories: enlistment, war,
Form: Free verse

A Way To Greener Pastures

...My words echo back to me
Off barren walls
Through empty halls
Find no hearing ears this eve
Except my own
I'm quite alone.

Soon perhaps I'll leave this place
For greener fields
'Cross dista...
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Categories: enlistment, adventure, faith, introspection
Form: Rhyme

If Only

...It would have been his twenty-third
birthday next month on the sixteenth.
Today we received a letter
From the government informing
Us our son was killed while fighting
The enemy in Kandahar
Afg...
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Categories: enlistment, death, introspection
Form: Verse

Premium MemberPreparing For Inspection

...The enlistment oath he took gravely to fulfill his obligation,
To defend the Constitution and to honorably serve his nation
He always looked sharp, wearing the Air Force blue with pride,
Adhering ...
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Categories: enlistment, death
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member617 Squadron " the Flight Home "

...Brave men brought together
To fly the bombers
To hamper the power
 
Enlistment their will 
To serve the free
All humble men 
As history will see
 
Hearts shaking
On this white knuckle ride
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Categories: enlistment, angst, brother, death, family,
Form: Rhyme

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