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Khaki Poems - Poems about Khaki

Premium Member The Celestial NAAFI
... The Celestial NAAFI Well there sits old Buck like he always did, Waving his pipe and tilting his lid. There’s Johnny and Ronny and Shep and old Taffy, And Soapy still d......

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Categories: khaki, military,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Seeking closure
...We seek wakefulness. What does Barbados mean to me? Is it the hot sun, broad-brimmed hats, and old khaki pants? It’s the robust men with warm, undertone skin that blends with the cultivated land. We ......

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Categories: khaki, addiction, allusion, anger, anxiety,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member My Observation Notes
...We seek wakefulness. What does Barbados mean to me? It’s the hot sun, broad-brimmed hats, and old khaki pants. It's robust men with warm, undertone skin that blends with the cultivated land. We seek ......

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Categories: khaki, allegory, allusion, angst, anxiety,
Form: Narrative
Embroidery his 2nd home
...Yesterday, at Maker Space, I completed Embroidering the image of your second home, And you were sitting in there alone. I also added embroidery of the poem, Titled 2024.7.29, the first poem I pos......

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Categories: khaki, appreciation, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mister Golightly
...... is wearing his tall white top hat Where his brains should be Wearing his rainbow bow tie Where his vocal cords should be He fancies his dragon cane in his hand No surprise h......

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Categories: khaki, fantasy, world,
Form: Free verse



Our first day
...2025.1.24 "Time flies when you are having fun" Well, time has definitely flies in front of me. It has been exactly one year, Since we first met. Amazingly, I still vividly remember how that day ......

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Categories: khaki, anniversary, beauty, fate, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Ernesto
...The story of revolution the glory of Che The fury of wander a doctor’s foray Silver spoon of his birth the high noon of choice A tune peasants cling to that force in his voice Daring insu......

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Categories: khaki, history,
Form: Rhyme
Remembrance Day 2024
...I saw students placing flags on the resting places of our honoured dead…… Remembrance Day 2024 The flags flutter from grave to grave Marking the lying place of our honoured brave The magpies ......

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Categories: khaki, remembrance day, war,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Vanishing From View
...A crush of grey faces, solemn against the grey sky, the grey sea; a pale, youthful khaki column slow board the ship from granite quay from which a crowd; sisters, mothers, cheer, with feigned en......

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Categories: khaki, loss, war,
Form: Rhyme
Combat Boots
...A pair of combat boots in black, Abandoned on the top Of the ramp right by the river Brought me to a sudden stop. Beside them was a khaki shirt, Its arms tied to the rail. Together they sugge......

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Categories: khaki, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
At the Metro
...At the Metro Shifting the needle To an intangible void Emerging from the depths Caterpillars running on rails and tracks As too , mouse and rat Critters, mere apparitions , ruin beds an......

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Categories: khaki, anxiety, city, evil, health,
Form: Free verse
April Personal grooming Ending Daily Shaving in Retirement
...April 4—Personal grooming… Ending Daily Shaving in Retirement When Sam Adams retired from the U.S. Department of State, he made five vows which he kept for years. first, he would quit......

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Categories: khaki, angst, anxiety, remember, retirement,
Form: Free verse
Anzac
... ANZAC Few among them knew the name Gallipolli no crystal ball foretold the hell it spawned but in the misty dawn of 25-04-15 the legend of the ANZACs would be born. standing tall......

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Categories: khaki, courage, war,
Form: Rhyme
jane Tarzan's daughter
.... for your information she tramps foot front foot from it appears birth i see her knees ......

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Categories: khaki, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Chump Change
... Were you even supposed to return here? It feels like you should be noticeably different, even if just slightly, improved— a worm seeking escape from a hooked fate, its visible squirm an apol......

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Categories: khaki, identity, time, vanity,
Form: Free verse

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