good-looking gorgeous gregarious godmother of mine
guards graceful gracious grateful great-grandma so fine
giddy girls giving genuine gumdrops, guiding GIs to Guinea,
Generating ghastly ghostly gibberish unheard by many,
Gently germinating geometric gelatin a plenty.
Golden goggles glowing good-naturedly
I like these giddy girls who giggle wholesomely.
Categories:
gis, word play,
Form: Alliteration
Those yanks in their tanks never got many thanks
The locals moaned, ‘they’re over here’ *
We Brits had the ration, those yanks sought out passion
With cigarettes, chocolate and beer
Girls couldn't rely on a whiff of a nylon
So legs got the tea or the gravy **
Eye liner pencil sufficed for the seam
The trick was to not make it wavy
But Typhoo and Bisto for fellas from ’Cisco
Was something quite hard to explain
Those girls would do lock ins with painted on stockings
All thankful that it didn't rain
Then with the war over and husbands at Dover
And Uncle Sam’s troops on their toes
Wives by the dozen had buns in the oven
And those baby’s dads were John Does
——
* Over paid, over sexed and over here - a reference to American GIs
who came, seemingly, laden with otherwise rationed goodies.
** In the absence of nylons/stockings, women would ‘stain’ their legs
with tea and draw on the seam. According to Mr Google, some even
used gravy. Neither were waterproof and rain (in Britain?) was to be
avoided at all costs.
Categories:
gis, world war ii,
Form: Rhyme
In God in love there is no fear
O'
God
Why must I ?
SUFFER
O'
Lord
Why must I SUFFER
What is this?
What is this for?
And is it a trial, that I must not ignore?
But even if I should,
even if I suffer
(And I know we gonna suffer sometime)
In God in love there is no fear
For what is right
It's not right, I'm not right
I'm blessed
I am blessed and I shall I
Shall not fear
Here what'd I fear
My conscious myself
the demons Lucifer get thee behind me because
I am Adorn I am the son of a living God
O' I know, I. Know gonna suffer some time
Because of my sin nature
There is no fear,
There's no fear in love but Gis and love casts out fear
No fear in love but in perfect love
And I shall not fear because love casteth out fear...
For if I'm in God
I shall not no fear because He's loved and there is no fear in love but perfect love is Him He casteth out fear
There's no fear
5/28/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2020
1st John 4:18
Categories:
gis, analogy, anxiety, encouraging, fear,
Form: Free verse
From his CPP,
OAS and GIS,
He’s trying to live
Month to month covid
Tries to do him in…its hard.
Many like him passed.
Covid took his wife!
He’s home now all alone and
Keeps on fighting it!
W.C.Hull © 2020-12-4-H1426-
2536-I52-K52-4-L59-4
Categories:
gis, sick,
Form: Haiku
© Ben Burton 5/30/2016
"Paw-paw," the young man asked, "how come you never talk about the war
The one Dad told me you fought in, in 1964?"
The gray-haired man replied, through dejection in his eyes
"Some things are better left unsaid, except of those who bled and died
Which war it was should bear no weight, they died fighting for us
My battle scars all lie within, too hurtful to discuss
For many who lost mind and limb were mocked, spit at, and cursed
And made to feel like aliens in this land of their birth
No time before had soldiers fought and come back home to ridicule
Those boys fought just as hard and true as did GIs in World War II
That's why you never hear me speak about those days, my dear grandson
What should have been our glory days were spent in Viet Nam
I might not speak, but I do pray...for every single one"
Categories:
gis, appreciation, war,
Form: Rhyme
Bill Mauldin, the innovative creator of GIs Willie and Joe,
Irked Georgie Patton but thankfully Ike told him where to go!
Billy told it like it was for the grubby grunts in the grime and mud.
Georgie couldn't abide Billy's barbs 'cause he was an old fuddydud!
Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
© All Rights Reserved
Categories:
gis, funny,
Form: Clerihew
File Talker
File Talker
There is so many people cerebral in there thinking there must soon be a file
talker in this society he is the smartest whip whipping in the society cirlclets. He
says wav and txt and temp when he is orating to society. He may even walk up to
you one day and say to you a string of numbers missing names along the way
like an average student in the hay imagined conversation goes like this "Hello
eye was 632 wav and eye did 347 txt and then it was 789 temp for the longest
time." Just be aware of him for he exists somewhen in all our futures and be
thankful that he is not the binary man and speaking it in code and calling brother
GIS and sister SIS. He is just the file talker now.
Categories:
gis, computer-internet, funny, on work
Form: Free verse