Lafayette Poems - Poems about Lafayette

Poppy Fields

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Flying over the front lines
with the French Escadrille Lafayette
a brown and barren belt below
a strip of murdered nature and yet
during the warm months of spring and summer
seeds in t...

Love of a lifetime at Lafayette

...Foundation.
I took some flowers to the cemetery and saw a man in deep conversation 

And wondered what he might be saying?

Love of a lifetime at Lafayette

(A lone voice whispers)

I once r...

Each Small Ornament Reminds Me of You

...I always considered you littered my home,
Small knickknacks adorning overcrowded shelves.
The marble statues you bought from lovely Rome,
I leave them there, a memory of ourselves.

And in gay P...

Dizzy, But Never Far From Home

...T'was a man named Dizzy from Lafayette,
but sometimes his way home he would forget.
So he carried in his coat pocket,
a deck of cards and a lucky locket.

When he found himself lost and all ...

On Monmouth's Fields, Part Ii

......He reformed the routing patriots,
formed a line atop a rise, Perrine’s Hill,
brought in General Knox and the artillery,
commanding the mass through sheer force of will.

He needed to buy time...

On Monmouth's Fields, Part I

...In June of seventeen seventy-eight
General Clinton led British troops north,
forced to abandon Philadelphia,
he now marched leisurely for New York.

He knew American troops shadowed him,
and he...

My Respnse To Church Questions

...St. James Discernment Question Answers
Thank you answering these questions and helping the Discernment Committee
with it's work.

From: James Thomas Horn 
#1 Remember a moment that was a high po...

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

...Now I'm a nine year old female African American girl;
A prodigy and I am a daddy's girl
Mom puts my hair in a bun
Yes, I'm nine but I'm to smart to play with crayons
Roarrrrrrrrrr ZZZZZZZZ
I hav...

Older Than Columbus

...New Jersey has a special tree,
A sturdy, mammoth oak,
Beneath whose shade George Washington
And Lafayette once spoke.

The tree was there before, from Spain,
Columbus started out.
The experts ...

Noises and Electric

...Lafayette we are a shamble of noises
digging the street and towing cars
as I told you so for my two twenty
that I pay for and you delivered hundred ten
or may be a sewer to extinguish a fire
sto...

Paris

...Morocco say my Ameriscam passport
blue eyed, blond hair and a smile
I pass any doors no questions asked.

If need be I shove the French one
the address Lafayette avenue can I be more clear
of m...

Lost Cause

...man created thunder awakening brooklyn with the promise of hell to come
if god is generous it will rain on the night of unregulated fire works
for dogs and cats not to fear the roar of drunken hool...

A Lost

...I lost my outside cat tonight
a dear to me I am drenched in tears
as I will miss the company
of rubs  and what not
looking for a meal and share of fleas

my heart broken again
all old lady tol...

Lafayette

...Gilbert du Motier, La Marquis de Lafayette--
A hero American patriots should not forget.
He helped us win the Revolutionary War.
In Paris, rests 'neath American soil ever more....

Dad Never Knew His Father

...Dad never knew his father.  That soldier died in a war.
All Dad heard was brief stories of the man that went before.
Grandma had some pictures and some medals on a wall.
But Dad never knew his fat...

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