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Iwo Jima Poems - Poems about Iwo Jima

Premium Member Salute
...Salute Bunker Hill, Yorktown, Lundy’s Lane, Monterey, Bull Run, Gettysburg, Shiloh, Antietam, St. Mihiel, Belleau Woods, D-Day, Saipan, Iwo Jima, The Bulge, Chosin Reservoir, Pork Chop Hill, ......

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Categories: iwo jima, hero,
Form: Free verse
Old Glory Has Something to Say
...Old Glory has Something He Wants to Say By – Roger White The dawn’s first sunlight crests over the eastern horizon. A midnight dark sky leisurely changes tinctures: blue becomes purple, bright a......

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Categories: iwo jima, 12th grade, discrimination, freedom,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Memorial
... His song swerved suddenly missed the curve and descended into silence. Still in Memory Just a tall skinny kid, only son from Columbus Ohio gradu......

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Categories: iwo jima, death, eulogy, kid, memorial,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Onslaught
...#One should be cautious in starting a war, but once begun, it should be carried out thoroughly# #Quote by Hirohito circa Dec 1942# Onslaught As little......

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Categories: iwo jima, allusion, america, world war
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Thanks For Your Service
...They gave their all, who stormed the beaches Considering the Battle of Heartbreak Ridge, Through steaming jungles farthest reaches The Taliban showing no mercy, like savages. Our m......

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Categories: iwo jima, military, patriotic, tribute,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Tapora
...Like Hannibal we crossed the pass and crossed the Alps (okay, the Brynderwyn Hills) and a bridge too far on north-west passage. From out of the Valley of Mizpah to the fires of perdi......

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Categories: iwo jima, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Old Glory
...Do not debauch the banner--red, white, and blue, By waving it above traitorous insurrectionists’ yell. Old Glory was “so gallantly streaming” in 1812, It has stood the tests of time tried and true......

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Categories: iwo jima, america, history, patriotic,
Form: Curtal Sonnet
Premium Member The Silent Legion
...The Silent Legion Tucked into closets both near and away, Amidst cedar planks, now alee of the fray, Rest class A’s once borne on frames Straight and young. A legion of aging uniforms hold f......

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Categories: iwo jima, character, inspirational, tribute, veterans
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Suribachi
...Suribachi At the base of Suribachi Within reach of the beach, The mountain towers as I shrink Into guts of hate,—malignant: With a rifle and bayonet, and grenades And murdering hands ......

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Categories: iwo jima, america, memorial, soldier, tribute,
Form: Verse
Premium Member My Time Machine
...My chair, at times over the past twelve weeks my prison cell. Seven weeks more before my sentence is completed. But today, my chair is going to be my time machine. Not flashy and gau......

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Categories: iwo jima, appreciation, blessing, thanksgiving,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Home of Squanto and Tonto
...There once was a place called Acirema A ways from the sands of Ipanema The birthplace of Squanto The home of brave Tonto Backwards. it fought at Iwo Jima......

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Categories: iwo jima, history, home, world war
Form: Limerick
Iwo Jima Reflection 1
...Iwo Jima reflection 1 10 December 2015 old shufflin' man aged ninety two creaks out of bed slides his feet into old shufflin' shoes draggin' ass passin' gas eyes his aging cat stretching o......

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Categories: iwo jima, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Our Brave Young Men
...Throughout history from time to time, our country has gone to war; they called upon our brave young men to enlist and join the corps. Some of the men were called by draft; while some enlis......

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Categories: iwo jima, courage, dedication, hero, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Memorial Day
...MEMORIAL DAY June 1, 2015 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To all of you that have ever worn "THE UNIFORM" The Uniform of safety and security, The Uniform of pride ......

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Categories: iwo jima, america, appreciation, history, holiday,
Form: I do not know?
A Forgotten Hero
...He is just a memory, a long forgotten hero Someone who gave his all before he died No one to come home to, no waiting arms And no woman to walk by his side He went to the service of his coun......

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Categories: iwo jima, war,
Form: Free verse

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