With Stealth and Guile
...Never disagree with the Officer Class
When you’re serving in the ranks,
Never disagree with the Officer Class
For you’ll never get any thanks.
They seem to think
The time they spent
Getting Co...
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Categories:
nco, humor, irony, soldier,
Form: Rhyme
His Limbo Soliloquy
...His Limbo Soliloquy
Actually, I like lockdown. I already was before COVID anyway,
but now I’ve got my privacy. No family feeling forced to visit
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Categories:
nco, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
The Barbed Wire Faintly Twitches the Great War
...Laying in the morning twilight, yawning, my head nods down and I jerk it up again,
The barbed wire faintly twitches, someone has touched it, will it be a friend or foe,
Shadows float across a near da...
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Categories:
nco, war, me, me,
Form: Prose Poetry
It Ain'T Like the Old Army
...Two grizzled master sergeants repaired to the NCO Club to cry in their beer.
Their jawing invariably turned to discussing the 'old army' of yesteryear.
They grew up in the 'brown shoe' army and of ...
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Categories:
nco, funnyold, time, old, time,
Form: Rhyme