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Lieutenant Poems - Poems about Lieutenant

Premium Memberattractive 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



Premium MemberI 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

Premium MemberLasting 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

Premium MemberDerivatives 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

Premium MemberBrideshead 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

Premium MemberThe 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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