Goodbye 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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On Embarkation leave
Too long a time to waste
But just enough hours
So as not to need haste

They made love together
Forty seven different ways
Spent a honeymoon period
In...

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That Taliban bomb
Blew Johnny to a bed
And when he woke up
He wished he were dead
And when Johnny finally came home
He wasn’t marching there
Just sitting in...

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He was my friend 
For just a few years,
Our friendship cemented
Over ciggies and beers,
And chatting up birds
On long boozy nights
And standing back to back
In barroom...

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There‘ll be black humour today,
Gentle ribbing, banter and jokes, 
Stripping away of egos, repartee
Among our mixed group of folks.
Bruising conversations maybe,
But in a non malicious...

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Say goodbye to Pretty Polly
The lass from the Co-op store
She went and joined the Army
And they sent her off to War 
Off to far Afghanistan...

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Tick Tock

Tick Tock, the clock keeps moving... 
one moment then the next. 
Sometimes I wish that I could slow it down, 
and make it go...

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I’ll Wait Forever

She stood with him on the veranda, 
Looking resplendent in her flowery dress, 
And he in his Confederate gray uniform
Tears fall down her...

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Goodbye said in an ICU
No goodbye at the other frontline
A shot to the head
Elsewhere, a shot to revive
Fear destroys.
A doctor intervenes to stop a forever-goodbye
Elsewhere...

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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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My sporting parlay tickets are locked away 
In the draw where they will stay 
Due to a bug  
That stopped the world from giving...

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I am in a mess,
My life is in a mess,
 I have no skills, no romance to give,
And much less,
Less than you expect dear,
Don’t be...

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Sans Sixth (psychic) non Sense...
Posing As Dystopian Rant

This prognosticator doth predict
potential based at current rate
sinister debacle that will
instantaneously annihilate,
which alarming (ohm my dog) turbulent
endemic chaotic...

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Im still alive momma been weeks I know but no break to write  momma they killed Johnny he died in my arms momma I...

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From what I have seen
America is a well-oiled machine
Our military always ready to fight
Together with so much might
Leaving their homes night after night
Saying goodbye believing...

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