The Smoke Man
...There is a character I had known back at the barracks,
That his doings earned him the title 'Smoke man,'
He had weird habits that always succumbed to change,
He had a way of bringing life to intro...
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Categories:
military officer, addiction, confidence, cry,
Form: Free verse
Prepared To Make Mistakes
...We all have our views on the subject. A military officer
on hearing I was pregnant asked me to consider having
an abortion. I know a young woman, the doctors told
her mom, that with her condition...
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Categories:
military officer, abortion,
Form: Free verse
For the Ultimate Sacrifice, Thank You
...From the Mayflower, they fought the high seas of the Atlantic.
They were not dressed in uniform, but they were gallant warriors.
From the North Eastern shores of the Atlantic to the Gulf of Mexic...
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Categories:
military officer, america, memorial day, memory,
Form: Verse
Pride and Prejudice: the Lacking Margins
...Pride and Prejudice: The Lacking Margins
Pride and Prejudice, a passionate novel by Jane Austen, published anonymously in three volumes in 1813. A masterpiece of English literat...
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Categories:
military officer, marriage, meaningful, men, muse,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Golden Tree
...They say that a tree is known by its fruit
But there are many trees whose fruits are unknown
Apple bearing pear and pear bearing apple
And a cherry blossom tree cannot bear sunflowers
"Keep out o...
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Categories:
military officer, adventure, autumn, beautiful, break
Form: Narrative
Dorm Love
...Ours was daily mysterious,
sometimes near mystical,
rapture;
a sensual yet platonic
dorm-mate love affair,
within the only male grad student corridor
at SFSU.
He was the presumably straight...
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Categories:
military officer, culture, gender, history, love,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Gypsy For Aries
...***( Inspired from a story I heard of a bitter Greek military officer torn between
love and duty; he would not run away with her,
so she ran away from him....)
The las...
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Categories:
military officer, allegory, lost love, mythology,
Form: Free verse
Underneath An Armpit
...UNDERNEATH AN ARMPIT
WHO IS IT? IS IT A TEST?
I DON’T WANNA THINK
I AM OR YOU ARE, ARE OR AREN’T?
GUESS WHO OR WHAT!
A MAN…A HUSBAND!
WHO CARES…BUT HE CARES!
JUST A MERE EXERCISE
N...
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Categories:
military officer, strength,
Form: Free verse