Long Macarthur Poems

The Florida of My Youth - My Generation
By Franklin Price
10/13/2019

Was born in mid November of nineteen forty five,
Was the last of seven siblings (only four are still alive).
Four sisters and two brothers, I was to...

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(Continued from Part Two - 1)

Nothing of the foisoning ageold homegrownwine
       strained through Ol’ Kayyam’s ever draining ruba’iyat bowl
    keeps vigil in their scelerosed veins ...

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Dedicated to  Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) 


I'd fought a hundred battles 
       through the ages past and new 
I'd...

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Kokoda 1942 See-saw battle

Red blood was a running, emerald green saw it pour,
In the mountains of Kokoda, death on the see-saw,
400 fifteen to eighteen year old boys knew the score,
Just ole .303 rifles to stop...

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Twas the day before Christmas and out on the range
Some strange guys were shooting some things that were strange
There were Springfields and Mausers and parkerized pistols
And a guy in a trench who was blowing a...

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Donna left him alone and fled in her yellow dress,
Richard sitting all by himself and feeling quite upset,
the dusk coming quickly as the sun started to set,
he pondered his and Donna's relationship on the picnic...

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At the VFW Post in Buang, Philippines they know Macarthur
Staggering off then
Swaggering back onto
These Philippines Islands and the
 Wail of Hirohito
Drowning in chorus with the headsman’s gush of 
Bloodstained tears
Upon the occasion
Of Bataan
Remembered.

Then in repose...

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You’d recreate a military hero?
Macarthur, maybe? Nimitz? Pershing? Sherman?
Or would you choose a leader from the past?
Suppose you went for Mussolini – Nero –
(I can’t remember what they called that German):
but stuff like this is...

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Salute

Bunker Hill, Yorktown, Lundy’s Lane,
Monterey, Bull Run, Gettysburg, Shiloh,
Antietam, St. Mihiel, Belleau Woods,
D-Day, Saipan, Iwo Jima, The Bulge,
Chosin Reservoir, Pork Chop Hill,
Ia Drang, Khe Sanh, Hamburger Hill,
Iraq and Afghanistan.
Famous battles in American history.

Washington, Scott, Grant,...

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Miracle Worker
by Rick Rucker

That, from a ugly lump of clay,
You have moulded me today!

That, in what seems like a minute,
You have saved what others would say "Bin it!"

You have saved a wretch like me,
Healed my...

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Sandcastle on the Shore

*Poem based on Richard Harris's
singing, "MacArthur Park."
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Like a child, playing with wet sand,
I tried to keep our sandcastle
together with these very small, 
dimpled, suntanned hands.

But the ocean waves...

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From Me to the Wise

Why would I want to really raise a fuss?
Knowing my poems are great for all of us
If not in your life things will be missing
When read at same time are you...

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salient arguments
whirlwind across the floor
rugs of rolling hills
closets filled yet more
the ones we never speak of
portraits fleering
infinite mirrored reflections
walls of respective distances
dogs chasing their tales
mad electrons seeking rest
grabbing at foreign orbits

i turn to her
i have...

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In WWII, my dad had to jump from a plane with a parachute, untrained, in the dark,
over unknown ground...(turned out a desert)  Plane was lost and out of gas...He 
and his Capt. survived, all...

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The Truth About The Real Comedy Of Life

Woe is me, my poor, aching feet do sing
A melody and blindness to ole blue moon
The fountain of youth sold only dry sand
Remember General MacArthur did return
And could...

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