The Ghost of Frankenstein - Things to Come
...You’d recreate a military hero?
Macarthur, maybe? Nimitz? Pershing? Sherman?
Or would you choose a leader from the past?
Suppose you went for Mussolini – Nero –
(I can’t remember what they called...
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Categories:
nimitz, future,
Form: Rhyme
Salute
...Salute
Bunker Hill, Yorktown, Lundy’s Lane,
Monterey, Bull Run, Gettysburg, Shiloh,
Antietam, St. Mihiel, Belleau Woods,
D-Day, Saipan, Iwo Jima, The Bulge,
Chosin Reservoir, Pork Chop Hill,
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Categories:
nimitz, hero,
Form: Free verse
Suribachi
...Suribachi
At the base of Suribachi
Within reach of the beach,
The mountain towers as I shrink
Into guts of hate,—malignant:
With a rifle and bayonet, and grenades
And murdering hands
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Categories:
nimitz, america, memorial, soldier, tribute,
Form: Verse
Pride of the Fleet
...both are movie stars
the Dallas and the Nimitz
and stars in real life...
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Categories:
nimitz, military, ocean, sea,
Form: Senryu
Unrep
...nineteen-eighty-five
Budweiser was brought on board
U.S.S. Nimitz...
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Categories:
nimitz, military,
Form: Senryu
1985
...nineteen-eighty-five
off the coast of Lebanon
Nimitz served proudly...
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Categories:
nimitz, ocean,
Form: Haiku
Old Salt
...Nimitz is still strong
the "Old Salt" is getting old
set to sail again...
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Categories:
nimitz, nostalgia,
Form: Haiku
Pier Twelve Memories
...I have memories of pier twelve
Right at the Norfolk Naval Base
Those memories I’ll never shelve
McDonald’s’ there to feed my face
I stood some sentry watches there
As my sister was in port too
Durin...
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Categories:
nimitz, family, food, friendship,
Form: Quatrain
Lee's Restaurant
...nineteen-eighty-three
reporting onboard
USS Nimitz
she was in dry dock
Lee’s Restaurant
in Newport News
was my hangout
in shipyard days
playing pool
making friends
Budweiser
fine food
large tab
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Categories:
nimitz, food, friendship,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Navy's Sea
...The earth's troubled seas
the Nimitz stood tall at sea
US Navy rides...
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Categories:
nimitz, peace, sea,
Form: Haiku
Alone In the Dark
...Alone in the dark
a place without limits
mind begins to attack
just like Nimitz.
Alone in the dark
where fear is known
no place to hide
chills to the bone.
Alone in the dark
somethi...
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Categories:
nimitz, faith, hope, peace, upliftingfear,
Form: Rhyme