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Gunnery Poems - Poems about Gunnery


Premium Member Ronald Lee Ermey
...Ronald Lee Ermey definitely showed no mercy as Gunnery Sgt Hartmann he delivered his best Marine DI impression ......

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Categories: gunnery, humorous,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Zen and the Art of Gunnery
... Firing blanks, i missed nothing. ‘Twas all for naught.......

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Categories: gunnery, metaphor,
Form: Free verse



Salty Dogs
...Off to the sea in ships we all go, Untested, but cock sure, as iron to a forge Deck apes, snipes and gunners are we, Salt spray, steam and gun smoke to deal Up early and turning to ‘til late,......

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Categories: gunnery, military,
Form: Rhyme
The Song of the Gunners Mate
...Listen, my shipmates and you shall hear A tale of adventure and a sea career. I shall never forget that cold clear day When I left the shore of ‘Gansett Bay. The sight of my ship was one of joy......

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Categories: gunnery, career, memory, military, voyage,
Form: Rhyme
Still Reeling Albeit Figuratively After Amidst Realization
...Still reeling (albeit figuratively) after amidst realization... keys to apartment and 2009 Hyundai Sonata went missing Yesterday August tenth year two thousand and twenty one, I experienced bli......

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Categories: gunnery, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Nun Fun In the Sun
...NUN FUN IN THE SUN There was in hot Tashkent in the orient A religious uprising - a convent dissent. Army was ordered in with gunnery, The soldiers targeted the nunnery. Here are the eve......

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Categories: gunnery, beauty, desire, myth,
Form: Footle
Does a Slug Think
... The next bullet might have your name on it Think about it, cause the slug won’t The next thug might be coming thru the telly Oh, yeah ... ‘copter mouth flying under the radar, wit......

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Categories: gunnery, allusion, truth, violence, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Medals
...You ask to know my history What part of me is best What were these medals given for All worn upon my breast. This one is for bravery This one is for injury This one is for gunnery This one's......

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Categories: gunnery, america, daffodils, horror, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Woodbury New Jersey Whetstone 2
...brings world word ii gunnery duty as extremely frightful flashback which utterly displeases this elderly mortal and such behavior moi aback!   Born in this same house on Leona av......

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Categories: gunnery, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
A Warm Cup of War
...As the suicide bomber detonates himself at a roadside check I wait for my coffee machine's light to turn green and beep Carnage unfolds after all bits of shrapnel finish their courses I add my spo......

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Categories: gunnery, conflict, death, death of
Form: Free verse
Clark Simmons
...Since I was the oldest of three sisters with a mum, As my dad had died when I was at an age young, I thought I’d join the navy to help out my family, But I excluded the black segregation code an......

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Categories: gunnery, appreciation, conflict, death, hero,
Form: Heroic Couplet
A Deep Reflection
...2 a.m. Another Mother's Day morning. Today I'm going to relate army life to some ladies in my life. This past Thursday my Infantry company conducted a training meeting. Weeks ago I had thought about ......

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Categories: gunnery, celebration, grandmother, mothers day,
Form: Prose
Lunch With the Captain
...After two years in the Tonkin Gulf during Vietnam, I was stationed in the Philippines. I was invited for lunch aboard an Australian destroyer by the ship’s captain. They were getting underway for......

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Categories: gunnery, adventureme,
Form: Free verse

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