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Kitchener Poems - Poems about Kitchener


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......

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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......

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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......

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Categories: kitchener, anniversary, community, dedication, remember,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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 ......

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Categories: kitchener, conflict, family, war, world
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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......

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



Premium Member 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......

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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......

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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 ......

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Categories: kitchener, celebration, culture, history,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: kitchener, memory,
Form: Prose
Premium Member 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......

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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 ......

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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......

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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......

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Categories: kitchener, warbody, me,
Form: Ballad

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