Merchant Marine Poems - Poems about Merchant Marine

...In Paramaribo I met a girl, half Indian and beautiful there was a big church and a castle to defend Dutch interest A hot and swampy place, which I liked coming from Norway, a cold country wit......

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...The Bumblebee He grew up in a poor household, thought sofa-beds were the norm, but his mother an eager reader had many books that were given and sometimes stolen, often from those who though......

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...When the Second World War began QANTAS aircraft were part of the RAAF plan Two Empire Flying Boats were taken with their crews To form part of the defence of Australia too These planes were pa......

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...The Big Green Fence Life carried on behind the big green fence. It seemed negativity could not penetrate the faded paint outside. Depression, wars, lost their sting once one crossed that......

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...At Dunkirk, where thousands of stranded men lined a bloody beach, hope was draining with each air strike delivered by the unrelenting Germans’ aircraft. Cold, starved, and injured men......

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...My father and I in a long time past played cards at the table and he would pause to tell me a tale when he was young as he did so many times before but the stories would change as he would rearr......

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...A Merchant Marine At fifteen, he went to sea A way to begin Harsh Realities Learning to be a real man Life was on the run Scrapes and falls and bumps Toughening the young fledgling Losing......

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...It has been said that World War Two was the last "good" war, This, despite expenditure of life, treasure and the ruthless gore. How can it be said than any war is "good" when nations suffer so, Wh......

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