Long Sergeant Poems
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Ice Cream Gran 5 - Turbo, We Have a ProblemIt’s heading for our planet at ten thousand miles an hour
To stop it all the experts say we haven’t got the power
All the nukes in all the world won’t constitute a plan
So someone said, ‘All...
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Categories:
sergeant, grandmother, hero, space,
Form:
Rhyme
Soul Stance River - 11Suddenly, two Indian boys throw themselves into the water like meteors
swiming towards camp chatty as prarie dogs,
they hail from a Teton encampment of 74 lodges a few miles up river
most of the men are feeling...
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Categories:
sergeant, adventure,
Form:
Epic
Zeitgeistcompeting cousins, interbreeding homo-sapiens
hominins humming mostly human song
altruistic generalisers, ever close to dying ways
opportunistic, never staying long
self-aware, inquisitive, enlarging brains, empathising
real representative intelligence
modelling...
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Categories:
sergeant, destiny, earth, hope, humanity, philosophy, power,
Form:
Verse
Rassphrass and Leroy's Love StoryRassaphrass’s husband LeRoy went out for garlic bread on a Tuesday. She ate all the spaghetti and meatballs before he returned, to teach him a lesson, because he took too long. He brought...
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Categories:
sergeant, fun,
Form:
Narrative
OnionsThe old church lay in ruins, left to languish in time.
He was sitting on the grave talking to Sergeant R Johnston.
Well, I suppose you want an update on the war.
Let me see now, where do...
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Categories:
sergeant, death, humor, soldier,
Form:
Free verse
Quy Nhon and the Tet OffensiveQuy Nhon and The Tet Offensive
By Franklin Price
9/2/2018
Quy Nhon and the Tet offensive, more than fifty years ago
That Chinese New Year changed our world and most its ebb and flow
Until that day the boonies were...
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Categories:
sergeant, memory, new year, war,
Form:
Couplet
The Forgotten VoicesThe date
July Twenty Eight
The year, 1914
The War which we feared
It began, something we could not foresee
This date, still haunters me
To this very day
Those bewailing screams
And those traumatic scenes
Words to do not to justify
The...
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Categories:
sergeant, conflict, courage, depression, military, veterans day, violence,
Form:
Free verse
Memories of a Green BeretMemories of a Green Beret
“Where have all the soldiers gone, Long time passing,
Where have all the soldiers gone, Long long time ago,
Where have all the soldiers gone,
Gone to graveyards, every one.
When will they ever learn?
When...
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Categories:
sergeant, history, nostalgia, veterans day, violence,
Form:
I do not know?
The RiverI finished work at noon on Friday and headed home to pack
Put my gear in the trunk and put my canoe on the roof rack
Headed out down the freeway and got off at exit seven
The...
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Categories:
sergeant, adventure, america, death, river, surreal, water,
Form:
Narrative
Damn Bad Reputation Counts 500 Plus Paw Whet Tick StintsDamn bad reputation counts 500 plus paw whet tick stints
The following fictitious poetic vignette attempts a feeble tale of one ordinary day in life of anonymous miscreant.
"I don't give a damn
about my bad reputation."
I...
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Categories:
sergeant, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, abuse,
Form:
Free verse
Their World
"Their World"
Of course, there was no re-assurance from them that they would respond to the message I had sent. Morning had arrived.
The day had commenced as any other, unravelling out of bed, in itself...
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Categories:
sergeant, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Ban Me ThuotBan Me Thuot
By Franklin Price
8/31/2018
Out in the Central highlands, far away from Cam Ranh Bay,
In the town of Ban Me Thuot was a place where I would stay.
There was no space available at any compounds...
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Categories:
sergeant, memory, military, war,
Form:
Couplet
The EulogizerHe’s called the Eulogizer
He reluctantly accepts this moniker as our elder
A name for which he feels disdain
Since it conjures memories of unspeakable pain
He's lost a father, mother, sister and son
His nights sleepless realizing...
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Categories:
sergeant, death, eulogy, funeral, grief, military, , cute,
Form:
Narrative
Uncle MichaelHis ramrod back, his brill-creamed hair
and waxed moustache gave him a certain air,
a certain dash, and a military bearing.
His speech was clipped. He walked his stick
with sergeant major's flick.
His corduroys ...
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Categories:
sergeant, father son, friend, fun, soulmate, suicide,
Form:
Rhyme
The Soldier Ww1World War 1
The Sergeant
The rose cannot compete
with the sweet smell of death,
only her image can forgive.
Laid upon the silence
of another boys coffin,
which hides this journey in life.
Your shame will not bring him back.
So...
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Categories:
sergeant, war,
Form:
Free verse
Direwolf, Dire Times
I watch the sun rise and once again bring another dawn, Another day in which we are alive. I stand 30 feet above the muddy ground, on the top of...
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Categories:
sergeant, animal, bible, community, fantasy,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Soul Stance River - 19Through April and May not a single Indian has been noticed
along all the serpentine bends of this rambunctious river,
however I feel we are being espied by a jealous warparty
immortal in it's protection of this pristine...
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Categories:
sergeant, adventure,
Form:
Epic
Dragon An Army of OneDragon got to thinking… And that’s always a frightening thing!
One of my son’s went into the Army, so he would do the same,
He’d been told, Soldiers are our Heroes, and he wanted to be one.
So...
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Categories:
sergeant, character, fantasy, fun, funny, happiness, happy, imagination,
Form:
Light Verse
Open the Floodgates(Fictional, but based on the real experience of one of my close friends who lost her daughter in an accident)
As I sat on my desk,
Hurrying with my pent up work,
A scrap of paper, left...
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Categories:
sergeant, angst, child, death, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Hello and GreatingsI will be 75 on June 26th and married for 50 years on August 27th.
I have a Master's Degree in Labor Economics and BA's in Sociology
and Psychology. I was Supervisor of Labor Market...
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Categories:
sergeant, encouraging, , literature,
Form:
Blank verse
Duties RewardSmoke wafted across the village,
The swack,swack, swack, sound
Of a helicopter inbound,
was heard,
Grass and dust churned and curled,
As it landed,
Amidst the carnage caused,
By it’s crew now disbanded,
The horrors of war,
are but dreams when...
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Categories:
sergeant, abuse, dream, veterans day,
Form:
Verse
DROPS OF DISHONORall the stuff going on that motel was heating up but the locksmith didn't speak
Irish too well & besides he got drunk & robbed the wrong merry-go-round anyway...
Sigh
Banal as it might seem, it's not how...
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Categories:
sergeant, animal, anxiety, business, care, character, cheer up,
Form:
Free verse
RafshropshireladI volunteered for service in the RAF in early 1942,
When I’d just become 18 and got three shillings a day;
I became a Wireless Operator/Air Gunner right through,
And was then sent home to await training, the...
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Categories:
sergeant, courage, england, hero, history, political, remember, world
Form:
Quatrain
The High King's Noble Son, Part IiiIII.
The northern borders were alive with talk
of the Warlord known only as Bimeng,
who’d risen amongst the savage peoples,
and was said to be uniting them.
Now Reth had heard tales of such things before,
so he stirred not...
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Categories:
sergeant, courage, family, fantasy, love, truth, violence, war,
Form:
Epic
ReasonsReasons
Sometimes we think,
Sometimes we drink!
Sometimes our mind,
Is lost in liquor or wine!
The trouble between both black and white,
Is that each see their view as right!
Let's work together for a single master,
Instead of fighting,...
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Categories:
sergeant, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, 6th
Form:
Rhyme