Farewell Military Poems

It is with great sadness we say goodbye.
To a truly smashing real good guy.
His name is Mike Parke who was our boss
The whole of 202...

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Mine dad in the 1940’s was an organ grinder huh!,  in the high seas in the Navy. In the 1940’s
 Lo, the clanging, bopping,...

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In seventeen sixty nine a child was born
in Corsica, Genoa's former vassal state.
Prior to his birth, his land had been war-torn,
Paoli's resistance did his birth...

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Memorial

It’s where I’ve fallen and where I lay:
Ashes to ashes, cradle to grave.
Dust to dust and cold as clay.

Where stone is chiseled and caskets draped
Where...

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Why am I hurt so sore, my folks 
Why does my heart bleed
Why do I take it so personally 
Why do I need to worry...

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It's time to depart 
from the clamorous harbor
as the crowd waves...
wearing faces of sorrow;
ah, dearest friend 
of my happiest years,
leaving the somber shore,
remember my affectioned...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Level
Four minutes to do what you want
What ya gonna do?
Listen to a pop song
Get half a ********
Smoke a cigarette
Drive round the block
Read two pages...

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Hidden under crop circle
resembling an ampersand
hides sheathed silo - obscured,
said symbol adorned every armband
of national socialist, yet weapons

of mass destruction) bland
lee, blatantly ignored global pact
prepared...

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T’is said the battle ended
as the tattered guidon fell
yet those who bear the scars
have a different tale to tell.

He stood among the bloodied
no one special...

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I feel so empty
I can not cope
My friends are plenty
I just mope

I can not cope
These thoughts in my head
Give me the rope
Wish I was dead

Hurt...

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Stand at ease soldier, rest your weary soul,
You've served your country, you've walked your last patrol.
Stand at ease soldier, rest your tired paws,
You've saved so...

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Their years have slowly slipped away,
Our nation’s heroes with heads of grey
Once strong bodies, now weathered and weak,
‘tis’ the solitude of grave’s-rest, they seek.

Willingly went...

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(for M.T.) 

Some days you wake up
You look in the mirror
You’re afraid of the fire
Afraid of the furor
Your heart skips gaily 
Over each error
Like the...

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#FAREWELL, BROTHER
by
Hannah Rain

Lowering him down upon his curved back,
On silky blue sheets, all pleated and tacked,
A pillow they stuffed beneath his cold head,
And combed his...

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