Sea Military Poems

A is for Airspeed who graduated from Oxford
   B is for Bristol with their whispering giants
C is for Convair and Canadair also
 ...

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Too far across the sea
in a place I'd rather not be,
on the winds of war ...
another day slips into forever.

I keep my head low,
pray Charlie...

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To everyone serving in the military,
The Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, and Marines;
You gave your lives protecting people like me,
From the ground, in the...

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Where the battles were valiantly fought,
land, sea, and air,
of our brave who survived,
you are honored with our fallen,
on this hallowed ground of
well-kept lawns, 
white marble...

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At my first sight of him,
I saw such a benevolence,
the Cuban youth with mocha skin
and bright root beer-brown eyes,
he only loved me,
I, a frivolous woman.
He...

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Across the city the emperor called
For recruits to join the legions
Travel to new and strange lands
And conquer for covetous  reasons

As sun beat down they...

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Our Many Military Memories

Many military memories were made,
And into past, none of them will fade,
Lasting forever which was day by day;
Even after they have passed...

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IV.
Fronds whipped their faces, they dashed through the trees,
more shrill, raspy growls rose behind them,
creatures crashed through forest, giving them chase,
they weren’t that fast, but...

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Photo by US Navy WestPack Album—Gorelick 2nd top right 
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Freedom 

I can go outside. 
I can go inside. 
I can climb a mountain, 
or swim in the sea. 

Freedom. 

I am free....

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Pandora's Equation
 
The box was beautiful. 
It held everything ugly in one place. 
It was meant to be a prison, 
to create safety on the...

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The tweet on the pipe called the muster fall-in
The cadets all fell in with nary a din
For now they’d be grouped for “Hands to Cleanship”
To...

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Off to the sea in ships we all go,
Untested, but cock sure, as iron to a forge

Deck apes, snipes and gunners are we,
Salt spray, steam...

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Rabid Putin
The crazed cliché of Putin went mad
And invaded Ukraine from four sides
Three on land and one by sea
Using choppers jets tanks 
Missiles bombs rockets...

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Listen, my shipmates and you shall hear
A tale of adventure and a sea career.
I shall never forget that cold clear day
When I left the shore...

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