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Gooks Poems - Poems about Gooks


Bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail, 31 May, 1970
...B-52: a city on its own. You mess with us, we’ve got technology. I loved it when we flew into the zone: as Ernie said, “We’ll kill ’em till they’re free.” My job? To watch the black cascade of......

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Categories: gooks, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member After Fifty Years
... You won't kill the spider that scurries across the floor of our living room, but you once killed solders at the Chosin. You called them gooks, then, now you know each was only a man masked......

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Categories: gooks, war,
Form: Free verse



A Land Without a Single Crook
...A land without a single crook, Because criminals they don't brook: They'd out fish them with a hook Relying in their roguish look... A District without a Half Crook Battered eyes to one make a......

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Categories: gooks, change, conflict, evil, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Hero Worshippers
...Cherishing The Triumphs of others, Ready for their suicidal orders: Spellbound by their Astonishing Peaks, These discussing for tireless weeks: The Tall Mountains France has ascended, In their p......

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Categories: gooks, beauty, sports, violence, war,
Form: Rhyme
Golden Triangle Snow
...Golden Triangle Snow Old skool rock and roll on the decks. Takes me back to before I was born. Smoking the best ing weed in 'Nam. Swimming in the river. Worshipping dark Gods. Making love to even da......

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Categories: gooks, conflict, drug, military, political,
Form: Verse



The Ranch Hand's Babies, Part 3 of 3
...(When the true toxicity of Agent Orange was finally comprehended, the Johnson Administration could think of nothing better to do than simply dump the chemical on a chain of Pacific islands, whe......

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Categories: gooks, war,
Form: Rhyme
Requerimiento
...(The Spanish conquerors of the Americas read out their legal document, the "Requerimiento", to the Indians. Failure to comply meant the Spanish were free to do what they wanted.) Conquistado......

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Categories: gooks, history,
Form: Quatrain
E Pluribus Unum
...It’s time, by now, we did away with nations. I tell you, hand on heart beneath the flag, This jingo jag has now become a drag. Those puerile patriotic palpitations had meaning only when we lived ......

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Categories: gooks, satire,
Form: Sonnet
Grabberwocky-2
...(November 2016) Twas Hillig, but the Limey Gove Did whine and witter in the Brext. All Szyddly was the Orban cove And Grabberwock out-Mexed. “Beware the Grabberwock, my dear, The salesman’s......

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Categories: gooks, humorous, parody, political,
Form: Political Verse
Red, White and Blue
...Red, White and Blue I fought in the Revolutionary war To win freedom from tyranny I fought for the right to choose my religion For the right to live free! No taxation without representatio......

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Categories: gooks, america, body, conflict, death,
Form: Rhyme
Lets Have a Toast
...Lets have a toast for the jerkoffs Lets have a toast for the assholes Lets have a toast for the dirtbags Lets have a toast for the criminals Its not all your fault dickheads Lets have a toas......

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Categories: gooks, corruption, fear, growing up,
Form: Ballad
They Caught Me Young
...They Caught Me Young The first cut is a cut so deep- Internalising this impression Has made me stir and creep With invariable precision! Great Writers caught me young Whilst an exploring ......

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Categories: gooks,
Form: Verse
My First Limerick Banger
...My first car was green , red and black . Part Nissan , Jeep and Cadillac . When you pulled out the choke The boot filled with smoke Flames farting straight out the back . I cal......

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Categories: gooks, car, funny, old,
Form: Limerick
Masks (Of Hallowen)
...Darkness uttermost Howl gobblins, gooks, grinch and ghost Dripping touch of night Blood like curdled light Candle tears, white serpents hiss Shadowing the mist Hell has broken free Behind ......

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Categories: gooks, mystery, seasons, visionary
Form: Haiku

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