Long Cold war Poems
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A Most Courageous American President For the AgesA Most Courageous American President for the Ages
I thought it would be most appropriate for me to take a moment to
share some of my reflections on the life and distinguished public
service of the late 41st...
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Categories:
cold war, america, celebration, character, inspiration, patriotic, political, tribute,
Form:
Narrative
Whatever Happened To Glasnost and PerestroikaWhatever Happened To Glasnost And Perestroika?
Hobbit those characters who lived
within the realm
of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
as far removed as
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
upon squelched cusp of progressivism,
now most likely
experience bitterness at the...
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Categories:
cold war, absence, angel, atheist, beautiful, betrayal, blessing,
Form:
Rhyme
The Battles the World Has Seenthe bombs
the guns
the blood shed
no humanity done
all is lost
under the strick and pain
of all the bombs
every day
WW1 WW2
the Cold War
nothing is new
death for nothing
revolution you say
killing hundred of...
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Categories:
cold war, dark, death, death of a friend, depression,
Form:
I do not know?
Give Peace a Chance Part 2Yet Africa is
expected to fall in
line
With speed and
alacrity
Or be headed back to
Europe
For much deserved
censure
And sanitization in
the heart
Of brutish Europe!
Have we not seen
them in action
At Treblinka and
Auschwitz, brother
With their atomic
bombs in Hiroshima
With their...
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Categories:
cold war, peace,
Form:
Free verse
Back To the Future
I
On the hill betwixt Carlisle and Deep Creek
...
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Categories:
cold war, friendship,
Form:
Rhyme
Pale Horse and the Yellow SubmarinesThis year's Halloween edition....
"Pale Horse and the Yellow Submarines"
There approaches
One
Light bringer
rides a dead pony
albino
red eyed, no gun
or so
the story goes
pale
as death
hear its
Netherworld neigh
beetles
dig deep
pigeons coo
novocained
ignorant
messages fixed
dull...
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Categories:
cold war, halloween, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Whatever Happened To Glasnost and PerestroikaWhatever Happened To Glasnost And Perestroika?
Hobbit those characters who lived
within the realm
of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
as far removed as
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
upon squelched cusp of progressivism,
now most likely
experience bitterness at the...
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Categories:
cold war, adventure, appreciation, bullying, confidence, destiny, grave, integrity,
Form:
Free verse
Sawbill Bay Ufo SightingSawbill Bay UFO Sighting
Stranger than fiction, fraught with mischief,
To deceive impressionable minds of gullible people:
Who desperately want to believe in conspiracies,
And alien abductions and out of body experiences,
As was the UFO sighting on the...
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Categories:
cold war, humor, imagination, science fiction, space,
Form:
Verse
Kahlia Akasha Is BackKahlia Akasha Is Back
We armed our jet with 8 anti ship missiles. Every single under wing weapon pylon was spoken for. Under fuselage drop tank full of fuel, in front of that a twin...
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Categories:
cold war, conflict, flying, military, technology, violence, war,
Form:
Narrative
King Vlad Redux - Second Cold WarKing Vlad Redux – Second Cold War
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin’s grimy fingerprints on current history
are for him nothing to gloat about—au contraire I say emphatically:
His actions bespeak one who’s not an architect for peace—not at all,
rather...
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Categories:
cold war, betrayal, corruption, discrimination, evil, international, political, war,
Form:
Quatrain
Mv Wilhem GustloffMV WILHELM GUSTLOFF
This was the worst ship disaster, with the greatest loss of life at sea
A German ship that was overloaded, with over 10.600, war refugees
Sank on the 30 January 1945 by a Soviet submarine...
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Categories:
cold war, boat, death, horror, world war ii, write,
Form:
Couplet
Rise Up To PrayJim Crow had been put to rest ...
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Categories:
cold war, god, prayer,
Form:
Couplet
Silent FightsWhen we fight in silence, like titans abound by egos
An eager poet overcome by words.
A beautiful model delicate as raindrops
When the silence in the room is as thick as our nostalgia
Wanting to hold each other but...
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Categories:
cold war, africa, devotion, for her, girlfriend, love,
Form:
Verse
Remembering Reagan's WordsThe crumbling down of the Berlin Wall finally
ended the Cold War as a defiant Reagan challenged
Gorbachev as his famous words were spoken mightily,
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear it down!"...And he shouted them with rage,
while...
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Categories:
cold war, history, hope, inspirational, loss, nostalgia, peace, people,
Form:
Narrative
Cousin Johnnie-FWe were children of the 50s and early 60s, first of the boomers.
Our parents knew of wars and more wars, much lack, and hard work.
They were either directly sent off to war or worked hard...
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Categories:
cold war, childhood, cousin, family, love,
Form:
Quatrain
Sputnik ScareSputnik Scare
The beep-beep-beep signal scare,
From the Sputnik artificial satellite
Orbiting the earth; broadcast through air
Continued for twenty-two minutes
Until the batteries ran out.
The Russians are first in space!
And America is on edge:
Perceptions of a missile gap and...
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Categories:
cold war, history, space, war,
Form:
Verse
My Favorite NumberI was born on July 20, 1958.
Being one of seven children and having a mid-summer birthday, even as a young boy, it was
not uncommon for my birthdays to come and go without much fanfare.
In...
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Categories:
cold war, historybirthday, parents, time, spring, winter, birthday, history,
Form:
Bio
The Super AmericanWWII has been over for 66 years &
for some reason those responsible for the production of captain america: the first avenger
think that now is a good time to bring back a douche bag...
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Categories:
cold war, lifewar, film, time, war, planet,
Form:
Free verse
One Hundred YearsA hundred years have come and gone
to what wonder and tragedies
have you belonged?
My father:
Born in the aftermath of a world at war
danced to the flappings of the twenties roar,
a time...
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Categories:
cold war, age,
Form:
Elegy
Caught Up In a Fairy Talefrom Juniper’s Daughter:
War Is Obsolete – Futility and Hope
By Nick Armbrister
Caught Up In...
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Categories:
cold war, anger, death, fantasy, history, technology, planet, drug,
Form:
Verse
George Washington Set Potus PrecedentThis revolutionary fella followed by
Adams family patriarch,giving rise
twin heir (plain lee gifted "Renaissance
Man") Jeff force'n without hemming
and hawing, subsequently conceding
nexus (nor horse drawn Lexus) of Colonial
power to Madison, thence...
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Categories:
cold war, age, birthday, character, courage, heaven, memorial, men,
Form:
Free verse
Christopher, Blair and ClaireCHRISTOPHER, BLAIR AND CLAIRE
Young Blair was a shy boy,
Somewhat a nerd,
He just simply could not make a friend,
The nursery school teacher,
Who was my mum,
Enjoyed her job so,
She was never glum.
Christopher was the lively...
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Categories:
cold war, children, school, teacher,
Form:
Rhyme
The Nature of Wisdom
Every flower has its own color
With annual observation,
this we springtime discover
Give a womb kernel cede
of acknowledgment
To the spectrum birthright
of each other
We are all one,
tho’ from a different umbilical mother
Notice the bloom of time,
come rain ...
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Categories:
cold war, metaphor, nature, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Prose Poetry
1984What a year – Tim was just a little boy of 25 – naïve and
Lost in ‘innocence’ a critical time bomb waiting to happen
Blue-eyed he listened to Nena’s 99 Red Balloons flying high
While Band Aid...
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Categories:
cold war, conflict,
Form:
Free verse
Powers(On May 1 1960, at the very depth of the
Cold War, CIA pilot Gary Powers was shot
down over the central USSR. Here we are
imagining his conversation with a charge
d'affaires of the US Embassy. ...
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Categories:
cold war, history,
Form:
Blank verse