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
The 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
Prevalence 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
Military 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
Memorial 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
Cotton 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
Preparing 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
617 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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