Another Year Remembered-1961
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Nineteen hundred and sixty-one,
was a strobogrammatic year.
It will be six thousand and nine,
‘til the next time that will appear.
It started off aggressively,
Ike told Cuba to go to Hell.
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Categories:
minuteman, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Birthday of beloved buxom babe I betrothed
...Birthday of beloved buxom babe I betrothed
Pardon my hyperbole if in fact such embellishment can be sifted out amidst the pretentious poetry and/or prose NOT aired to appear superior, but more so ...
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Categories:
minuteman, anniversary, appreciation, birth, birthday,
Form: Free verse
Got a Minute To Write
...Could I have written novels
How about short stories...
Perhaps non-fiction could have been my forte
True adventures, riveting biographies...
Really, I don't think so; I'm getting ...
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Categories:
minuteman, books, humor, old, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Broken Time
...*Image of Shattered Time by dreamstime
Broken Time
Its hands went frozen a warm summer June,
Bought it new when cool though it waned since then,
Days were young and fresh loved e'...
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Categories:
minuteman, allegory, america, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Sonnet
Song of the Minuteman
...I am the minuteman
and I’ll lay thyself in a grave,
whether from distant lands
or if you’re just from down the lane,
Stand against freedom and
I will treat you all just the same,
God help you i...
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Categories:
minuteman, america, conflict, courage, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Old Friends Who Made You
...The minuteman with his musket,
The man who won our freedom,
An everyday guy asked to step up,
And like a soldier, carry a gun
An old friend who made you,
An old friend that you’ve spurned.
Th...
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Categories:
minuteman, america, history, men, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
The Circus Is In Town
...Come join the unraveling circus
quite soon to be passing our way,
with the clowns in a clamor to twerk us -
line up as they lead us astray!
Arriving, the elephant trumpets
agendas of aberrant ...
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Categories:
minuteman, humor,
Form: Quatrain
Breaking In To America On a Snowy Evening
...Breaking in to America on a Snowy Evening
Loch David Crane
Minuteman Civil Defense Corps member
May 2, 2006
Whose land this is I think I know–
America, where all things glow.
They wil...
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Categories:
minuteman, america, immigration, judgement, parody,
Form: Ballad
Security Breaches At Usa Nuclear Missile Base
...Security Breaches at USA Nuclear Missile Base
By Elton Camp
In Montana, Malmstrom Air Force base
To keep Minuteman missiles is the place
Each is tipped with a nuclear warhead
That can cause man...
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Categories:
minuteman, humor,
Form: Rhyme