Goodbye Hero Poems

They say all men need a hero.
Mine lived primarily on gorp.
So, listen long and listen slow
To the sad tale of Oglethorpe.

He was bigger than a...

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Join up and enlist Kitchener said, the Army will be such fun
For King and country, make your mother proud son.
However life at the minute, it...

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Hear them pray for the last time,
their leather boots no protection still.
Listen to the church bell chime.
Hear the men ordering to kill.

Turn off the radio.
Stop...

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From ashes of Sokovia, a twin sister rose,
With powers of chaos and psionic flows,
Wanda they called her, tethered spirit unfurled,
As women before her, she reckoned...

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[Inspired by Jenna Logan’s epic ‘No Politickin in Soup Creek’]

FLUSH = First League of Unlikely Super Heroes
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Tick Tock

Tick Tock, the clock keeps moving... 
one moment then the next. 
Sometimes I wish that I could slow it down, 
and make it go...

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I hear them say,                                          ...

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We say goodbye to Thomas Moore
Whose diligence raised funds galore.
This national hero rose to fame
Whilst pacing with his zimmer frame.

26.01.2022...

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LIFE WILL CHANGE
"Before your last breath says goodbye to you,
Before your soul passes a last smile to you,
Before the entire time and tide stop with...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Courtly days of knights so gallant,
And demure damsels in distress;
Hearken ye to this admiring descant,
Of chivalry and sheer noblesse.

Nights of satin and days of adventure,
Of...

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Relentlessly serving our country day and night,
Guarding us with all their might.
Fearlessly standing without thinking about the end,
Gracefully towards our safety their lives they lend.

Treading...

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There was a very special date,
Back in 1922 on December 28.
Upon this date a hero of heroes was born,
Into a world already torn.
For you see,...

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16th September 2018

THE SCRAGGY FOWL	

The frightened scraggy fowl ran shrieking across,
The grass trodden path,
Only a squawk was heard in the aftermath,
Isaac’s gain, the chicken’s loss!

Young...

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Pulling back the curtain is a long man in bed still and quiet.
A quirky, quiet, humble, loner that shared this world with me briefly.
Seeing him...

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