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War Wounds

...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 ain't that good
I've stood on a mine, losing lots of b...

Categories: kitchener, betrayal, conflict, courage, england,
Form: Rhyme

Firing Squad 1916

...Another dawn moment
Another dawn crime 
Another act of violence
In a violent desperate time.
The firing squad paraded
On the killing ground
Every rifle charged but
One with a blank round.

T...

Categories: kitchener, anger, military, murder, world
Form: Rhyme

Sharp Street Shrine, March 2014

...It's cold and it's windy
But still that crowd meets
To stand with respect 
At the top of Sharp Street.
The Bearers stand at attention
As though shrunken by age
Since those seventy years
When t...

Categories: kitchener, anniversary, community, dedication, remember,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Recruitment

...RECRUITMENT

Your country needs you lads, let Lord Kitchener tell you more
Come forward, join the ranks and we’ll send you off to war
You’re fighting for salvation; you’ve got Jesus on your side
...

Categories: kitchener, conflict, family, war, world
Form: Rhyme

The Call

...The Call

For as long as I can remember, I have been phoning my mom. Even before leaving home when I was a teenager. Whenever I had good or bad news, it was just natural for me to want to call my m...

Categories: kitchener, angst, blessing, courage, death,
Form: Free verse

The Call To Arms

...Lord Kitchener sent out the call to arms
In England boys and men heeded the call
Women took over the factories and farms
Before the armistice thousands would fall.

Big guns like thunder all day...

Categories: kitchener, history, war, world war
Form: Sonnet

The Kitchener Anthem

...Arise o! Kitchen pot
My stomach calls to bay.
To serve my stomach right
With appetizing gaze I pray.
The labour of my market-thing
Shall never be invaded
With poisonous outing.
One kitchen bou...

Categories: kitchener, adventure,
Form: Verse

Carnival

...Its carnival season again in Trinidad
The whole country in a party mood
With steel pan, soca and calypso
Beautiful women and all kind of food

It has a big show in Skinners Park
Tonight in san ...

Categories: kitchener, celebration, culture, history,
Form: Light Verse

Road Trip

...Time for a road trip, my  dad, mom and us three kids all packed into our old station wagon. I guess it wasn't so old but it sure seemed that way at the time. We had 458 miles to drive on our trip fro...

Categories: kitchener, memory,
Form: Prose

Kaufman Factory

...The old Kaufman footwear factory
with it's grand entryway
Marble floors
Granite counters
Important people use to walk it's halls

Pictures of the founders had lined the walls
Intimidating, dressed in...

Categories: kitchener, life, remember,
Form: Free verse

Trinbago Massive

...Trinbago massive


A lady in America asking me
To tell her something bout Trinidad
She planning a vacation soon
And want to go there real bad

She wants to hear everything
About the culture ...

Categories: kitchener, adventure, holiday, introspection, nature,
Form: Light Verse

Island In the Sun

...Trinidad 

My island in the sun
Where my birthright belongs
My ancestors sail from far
... And there I was born

They came from India
Across the oceans
Work in the cane fields
And the plant...

Categories: kitchener, places,
Form: Light Verse

Harry the Breaker

...HARRY THE BREAKER
Harry galloped through the Mulga           (13% protien animal tucker)
On a game horse Bunga Din
The Brumbies galloping on Tolga
Were yarded with a grin
Every station had a wel...

Categories: kitchener, warbody, me,
Form: Ballad