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Gunships Poems - Poems about Gunships

Band of Brothers- 1968

...Not a stir of air, not a movement of grass or bush,
This night is as still as the death that stalks the unsuspecting.
That creeper of the shadows, the face that only takes on features              ...

Categories: gunships, death, social, war,
Form: Free verse

A Poem - Viet Nam

...A Poem [ Viet Nam]
                                   By Patrick Kelly

 The last minutes of evening yields to the moon’s shadowed night,
 giving me a few moments to nibble the last of my “Band O...

Categories: gunships, war,
Form: Prose

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...

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

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Quy Nhon and the Tet Offensive

...Quy Nhon and The Tet Offensive
By Franklin Price
9/2/2018

Quy Nhon and the Tet offensive, more than fifty years ago
That Chinese New Year changed our world and most its ebb and flow
Until that...

Categories: gunships, memory, new year, war,
Form: Couplet

Vietnam Was Fifty Years Ago

...Vietnam was Fifty Years Ago
By Franklin Price
8/30/2018

Vietnam was fifty years ago
Around the world across the sea
God went with me on tour
Now it's just a memory

The Air Force was my ser...

Categories: gunships, memory, military, war,
Form: Rhyme

Boots On the Ground

...Saddle up! Saddle up! It time to go.
     I heard the Sergeant’s call
I held by rifle against my chest,
      And vowed to give my all
It’s time the Sergeant said, move out 
     Let put your bo...

Categories: gunships, conflict, destiny, fate, military,
Form: Rhyme

The Saloon

...I am in a saloon, where a blanket of glittering mist covers the floor, and where critics are shredded by Apache gunships at the door.  
Hemingway sits at one end of the bar, drinking daiquiris, eyes...

Categories: gunships, dream,
Form: Free verse

Cherry Terror

...As the sun sets my mind runs with the thoughts that I'm stung with
Ever since Cinderella stung me I've been sprung since
Only wanted for the helicopter gunships
As my tongue slips Cherry Terror
I...

Categories: gunships, hyperbole,
Form: Free verse

The Last War Poem

...I tell you, this is the last word for this war.
This little side war we were the center of.
 There is no justice from poetry-
 Any veteran can tell you that. 

They want their land, their lives,...

Categories: gunships, international, war,
Form: Free verse

Apocalypse For Sale

...A Golden Dawn is rising
the camera’s click the few,
the Greeks are out of options.
Immigration a convenient excuse.

Check your neighbour’s papers?
 Jews have seen this before,
African skin is burnin...

Categories: gunships, political, world, , western,
Form: Free verse

Dust and Bone

...Battles rage about the soul
Waning Moon out there
Men have died we’ve never known
And therefore did not care
Absolutely you will say
This living must go on
Raging battles come what may
Are hea...

Categories: gunships, allegory
Form: Rhyme