Pilot Dog
...Pilot dog flew the airplane with ease
Cumulus clouds gave him a bit of a tease
This was his thousandth solo flight
Instrument panel said things were all right
This 747 was fancier than most, a ...
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Categories:
instrument panel, dog,
Form: Rhyme
Pilot Dog
...Pilot dog flew the airplane with ease
Cumulus clouds gave him a bit of a tease
This was his thousandth solo flight
Instrument panel said things were all right
This 747 was fancier than most, a ...
...
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Categories:
instrument panel, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
My Life In Sevens - Part Three
...I am twenty-one.
It’s a hot, summer day in 1963.
I’m in Lubbock, Texas, at Reese Air Force Base
And I’m climbing the ladder into a supersonic T-38 jet.
The parachute strapped to my back is cumber...
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Categories:
instrument panel, life,
Form: Free verse
The Riders
...The pre-dawn stillness was temporarily broken by the sound of crunching gravel as boots meet rock like an orchestra of timpani drums, beating in unison as the wearers make their way to the iron stee...
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Categories:
instrument panel, adventure,
Form: Prose
The B-17 and the Me-109
...Somewhere over Europe
A B-17 flies
Strafed and damaged
In her enemies skies
The flak has taken
Its toll on the plane
This crew so brave
In this theatre of war campaign
Many hours have pas...
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Categories:
instrument panel, anniversary, friendship, history, life,
Form: Rhyme