Esprit De Corps Poems

Premium MemberEmma and Deacon

...Emma, Empress of Unicorn Empire,
esprit de corps of elementary school,
expeditious at exaggerating expression,
eagerly extending empathy of enormous embrace,
endless enthusiasm, exuberant existen...
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Categories: esprit de corps, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberRespect Demanded

...
     The President is the Commander-in-Chief
        of every US military force
     which makes it a very important office, of course

     The person who holds it must command 
        respe...
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Categories: esprit de corps, leadership, military, trust, usa,
Form: Rhyme


I Samson wannabe feel aghast at latest turn of events regarding Gaza

...I (Samson wannabe) feel aghast at latest turn of events regarding Gaza

Omnipresent grief and horror
abounds toward ceaseless killing fields
impossible mission for me
to summon forth fading magi...
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Categories: esprit de corps, abuse, anger, angst, bereavement,
Form: Free verse

NIGERIA AND BAD BELLY

...Nigerian people let us embrace the truth,
Bad Belly is Bad Belly
It is Bad Belly when your Father beats his chest,
And declares that "he is the giant of Africa," 
But he cannot boast of ordinary ...
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Categories: esprit de corps, africa, betrayal, corruption, humanity,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThat Certain Time of Day

...There's a certain time of day
    tho' unwelcome, it never goes away

  'Cos I swear there are bosses with a secret device
    who put the hands of the company clock on ice

  And I've met more...
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Categories: esprit de corps, fantasy, giggle, time, work,
Form: Couplet


Mine Doppelganger Complicit As Accomplice In Pecuniary Crime

...Disguised as an Apple Computer Technician.

He initially hacked Macbook Pro laptop.

He (alias Harvey Specter)
planted seeds of suspicion
that criminal activity prevailed
within my geographic ...
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Categories: esprit de corps, abortion, absence, abuse, angel,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberEntitlements

...Giving someone something for nothing
    Worst idea in the history of man

  Yesterday's safety net expanded to universal permanent entitlements
    ~ Sabotaging esprit de corps with 'Gimme-what-...
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Categories: esprit de corps, irony, poverty, society,
Form: Rhyme

Harriet Harris, Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost

...Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost...

~ May fourth, 2005
wedded bliss nearly fifty years
half a century almost
me not most favorite grown offspring,
she (when alive) did boast,
ab...
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Categories: esprit de corps, absence, abuse, anger, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Long Since Stopped Binge Reading Bertrand Russell

...I, (a bookish educated intelligent nerd,
albeit three score plus tres años)
constitutes a novel titled 
The Virgin's Lover
by Philippa Gregory
another writer from England. 

Not so much to boa...
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Categories: esprit de corps, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Swing Sets and Jungle Gyms

...(or swing sets and monkey bars)

A pitch perfect spring day
such as today April 8th, 2022
within quaint hamlet 
of Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
in close proximity within mind's eye
to Lake Wobe...
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Categories: esprit de corps, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Free verse

Sean's Legacy

...When James Bond had Pussy Galore
Moneypenny slammed shut the door
MI's telephones
Broadcast Pussy's moans
Touting British esprit de corps!...
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Categories: esprit de corps, england,
Form: Limerick

Still Binge Reading Bertrand Russell

...Still binge reading Bertrand Russell...
9/8/2020

I plunge further into 
erudite epistemological philosophication
courtesy said renown British polymath,
philosopher, logician, mathematician,
h...
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Categories: esprit de corps, 12th grade, adventure, age,
Form: Free verse

If I Died Today March 2nd, 2020

...If I died today March 2nd, 2020...?

No matter unfulfilled dreams never came true,
nevertheless yours truly doth gladly bid adieu,
where repurposed afterlife (mine) atomic brew
reconfigured, rec...
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Categories: esprit de corps, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Epitaph

Premium MemberBursting With Pride

...So proud of my son now, just bursting with pride
   though there were times, I admit, I was worried inside
   
In pre-induction training to defend the Jewish State
   surrounded by sworn enemies ...
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Categories: esprit de corps, father son, prayer, pride,
Form: Couplet

Waiting For Good Dough

...No matter yours truly
(potential rising star -
analogous to ascending yeast)
bred for easy street
life of po' witless
mendicant nimbly,

pointlessly, and rhythmically
shuffles (think tramp)
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Categories: esprit de corps, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

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