attractive available anguished armadillo
...attractive available anguished armadillo
babbled bold bald badger whose bagpipes billow
Caribbean cardinal carved a curious candy castaway
dazzling daffodils and damselflies dived into last Tuesda...
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Categories:
lieutenant, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Abecedarian
Twenty-Four Dr Peppers
...24 Dr Peppers
One day I started running and my legs fell off.
I was in the army, and I had to clean the floor with a toothbrush.
It started raining sideways.
Then a bullet jumped up and bit m...
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Categories:
lieutenant, humor,
Form: Rhyme
eternal seaman
...The eternal seaman
Coming from the sea, he stayed at a B/B hotel Churchill
near the railway station in Liverpool, a handy place for working women
to bring their customers, who would come home ...
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Categories:
lieutenant, age, allusion, america,
Form: ABC
For the love of a lieutenant
...Tell me that story again,
The tale of love and self-sabotage,
Of doubt and valour,
Of hearts and corruption,
Where the days are adventure and the nights are a dream,
The danger is adrenaline...
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Categories:
lieutenant, for him, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Bronx Soldier
...BRONX SOLDIER ( this is a true story )
He was a soldier - Bronx born and raised and learned the streets at an early age .helping other people where ever he went- knowing about sacrifices and w...
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Categories:
lieutenant, death, soldier, war,
Form: Rhyme
I Must Find a Different Job
...yellow tape
not a good sign
I should run screaming the other way
some macabre force moves me toward it
my blood turns to ice
when I see the chalk outline
not of a grown up
but rather of a ch...
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Categories:
lieutenant, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Booted
...Booted
The boss was a real ing wanker who abused his position
Now he’s got the golden boot and is no longer there
But he goes to the company cark park to see his lieutenant
Who is just the same ...
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Categories:
lieutenant, abuse, feelings, humor, mental
Form: Verse
Purple Heart: In Honor of My Father
...I was a young man at the age of nineteen
When I was sent to a country on the other side of the world that I had never seen.
I was trained as an infantry soldier
With an M-16 rifle on my back;...
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Categories:
lieutenant, courage, dad, dedication, father,
Form: Rhyme
Lasting Sunrise
...It was a cold winter day, when I took a photo of the sunrise
I had no idea what I would find out, hours later
The man I loved who made the biggest difference in my life, had died
I remember hyperv...
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Categories:
lieutenant, death, loss, soulmate, sun,
Form: Narrative
Derivatives With Limits
...Working over Birk’s Works and other tunes my saxophonist admires—
Cheesecake, Blackbird—for the theoretical, applied mathematics
inside an abstract, audial harmonization of the Big Bang and The Fal...
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Categories:
lieutenant, cancer, funny, god, hero,
Form: Free verse
An Army Officer In Falkland
...Army officer.
His name was Jones, was not Welsh
perhaps his grandfather was
He spoke a peculiar upper-class English
sounded like a monologue directed
at people with low intelligence.
Jones w...
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Categories:
lieutenant, anger, death, heart,
Form: Sonnet
The Eternal Seaman
...The eternal seaman
Coming from the sea, he stayed at a B/B hotel Churchill
near the railway station in Liverpool, a handy place for working women
to bring their customers, who would come home ...
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Categories:
lieutenant, best friend, integrity, mom,
Form: Blank verse
A Commander Deserted By Sleep
...It was noon for Lady Amanda
And in drove a Platoon Commander:
Gerald Rutherford, full Lieutenant
Many years back her Quiet Tenant...
Now Military, still Great Manners,
As though in defence of ...
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Categories:
lieutenant, courage, integrity, marriage, war,
Form: Rhyme
Brideshead Revisited
...I lay awake in that dark hour and was reflecting on my life
From all the travelling I had done to the breakup with my wife
I was an architectural painter and was very successful too
And after ...
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Categories:
lieutenant, england, memory, soldier, war,
Form: Narrative
The Cry of Dolores
...A popular priest in 1810, Spanish rule he spoke against
those who had overthrown the Spanish Viceroy José de Iturrigaray
A speech calling upon the people to protect in angst
Their King Ferdina...
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Categories:
lieutenant, cinco de mayo, cry,
Form: Rhyme
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