Funny Military Poems

"Oh, look, my little Johnny is the only one in step"....

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One day a piper, with stylish intent,
     Wore a tartan kilt, in full regiment.
     But with far...

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High summer at the Regiment,
Admin Inspection coming around
So they placed a little saluting base
At the edge of the Parade Ground.
A coco matting covered floor
On a...

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Catch 22 was fiction
Appealing to a humour like mine
But there was nothing very funny
About Section 69.

The army ran on regulations.
Obey them and you'd be fine
But,...

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I've met with Major Problem 
To discuss a business problem 
But his brother General Problem 
Was so jealous, it's a problem 
For he thought that...

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Heaven help
The unfortunate bloke
Who got caught
By a big Jim joke

I heard laughing voices and wondered why
Then surfaced from gonk under open sky
Didn’t take very long...

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The morning sun’s oppressive; a nasty b*tch in heat on Rizal Avenue,
Where vendors hawk their cigarettes, baloot, and dog meat barbecue.
The jeepneys buzz the intersection...

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The Cure

They gave me pills today. 
They wanted to give me a shot. 
I took both, 
but now I wonder... Why?

I went by the store,...

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Popcorn 
stillborn 

Colonel 
kernal

Combat 
dessert

Army 
charming

Uncooked 
good luck
 
quack quack 
says duck

10/12/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020...

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Jelly bean warships judiciously cheering for the enemy?
The old timers do not understand this unnaturalness.
“It is an inescapable truth today,” Sgt. Mars Bar told them.
“We...

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INSIDE D DAY
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


The weather is really lousy rained all day
I’m so nervous and edgy, I’m learning to pray
We are prepped and ready to...

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The Captain's new wife was "true blue"
Whilst he stayed The Wives Club main screw
But rather than pout
When the Captain was out
She serviced his troops two...

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Five years ago, on New Year's Eve,
I resolved to love forever,
Weeks later, the mailman came,
My draft notice arrived.

Four years ago, on New Year's Eve,
I wished...

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Hopping mad, Billy glares through a port
at what foes seem to think is such sport.
Frown for frown, glare for glare,
scarecrow raises his hair.
He laughed yet...

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Freedom's Destination

Some foreign country
Some funny name

After awhile
They all sound the same

Grandpa went first
Back then World War I

And didn't come home
'Til the job was all done

My...

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