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Guard Duty Poems - Poems about Guard Duty

Premium Member TARGET PRACTICE SHOOTING MY LARGE TREES IN LARGE PLANTERS
...FEAR NOT THE BULLET HOLES LEFT INSIDE MY LARGE PLANTS AS MY NEIGHBOR ENJOY DRINKING A COLD BEER SITTING WITH HIS DOG LICK WAITING ON A TIME TO KILL I CALLED THEM MY JAN 6 NEIGHBORS BECAUSE THEY CRUS......

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Categories: guard duty, allah,
Form: Naat
Premium Member Deployed to Kuwait
...The camel musk entered my tent today a quiet sand storm arouse the warm wind settled outside white garments blew in the breeze i could hardly collect myself my thoughts were on American t......

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Categories: guard duty, allah,
Form: Munajat



Night Shift At Arkham
...Arkham Is not for me I wish I were writing But instead I’ve got guard duty With serial killers and maniacs Screaming, howling, crying Joker, Two-Face Riddler Why does The Bat Let the......

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Categories: guard duty, work,
Form: Rictameter
Premium Member My Brothers Boots
...My Brothers Boots David J Walker (3/19/74) They opened him And closed him And told him to go home a And wait I was a soldier then I took leave to come home And be with him We talked ......

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Categories: guard duty, allegory, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fort Laramie - a Trooper's Story
...At dawn the bugle's piercin' call roused troopers for another wretched day, Of curryin' horses, shovelin' manure, drillin', guard duty and gatherin' hay! Another day of bellerin' sergeants and pomp......

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Categories: guard duty, military,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Mother Said
...Mother Said My Mother said you need to read more than Comic books. I know I’m not the only one. Some of everything that I read from my childhood to adult has been made into movies. Like ......

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Categories: guard duty, 5th grade, family, fun,
Form: Free verse
Military Service
...Military service (compulsory) Stationed at a camp The discipline, not too tough unless you had never done up your bed. They gave us some old German rifle not Shooting anyone, but for training......

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Categories: guard duty, deep, devotion, dog, earth
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member A Sonnet of the Trees
...Splendors filtering light from sol’s fingers. Winter sentries stand looming in the shadows cast by moonlight. In the cold polar breath, nothing lingers; guard duty shifts when Spring ar......

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Categories: guard duty, appreciation, earth, environment, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Well-Worn Path of Shoes
...WELL-WORN PATH OF SHOES shoes ~ saddle with gray and blue catholic uniform dove white ~ easter sandals dressed in ‘60’s powder blue sneakers with my uniform last......

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Categories: guard duty, life, travel,
Form: Free verse
The Bird
...The bird a cat on guard duty the fat worms......

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Categories: guard duty, africa,
Form: Monoku
The Roman Government and the Resurrection
...On the day after Jesus’ death, on Preparation Day, Which was when the Jews removed yeast from bread, That was to be eaten like clockwork on the Saturday, When the Jews were ruminating on if the......

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Categories: guard duty, death, easter, god, innocence,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Premium Member Hank's Last Roundup
...Hank had cowboyed on the Triple T Ranch fer nigh on fifty years. He'd rode the range herdin' beef peerin' betwixt his hoss's ears. Durin' cattle stampedes he'd broke bones and many a time was throw......

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Categories: guard duty, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Silence and Sound
...Silence, a gift that offers respite from sound. Practiced by librarians and the palace guard duty bound. A moment in night when all humans slumber, Opportunity to reflect on all thoughts encumbe......

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Categories: guard duty, sound,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Genghis On Guard Duty
...His ears peak up and his tail is straight The innocent pedestrian will meet his fate Within a blink of an eye The mighty Genghis flies With a yap of lightning glee And the grace of gazelle spe......

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Categories: guard duty, dog, fun, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Wimp
...Women In Military Poem (WIMP) Come on now and get a load of him; He looks so nice and stays so trim And of course is handsome as can be; When in shower all of him can see. Body's so strong and beyo......

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Categories: guard duty, patriotic,
Form: Couplet

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