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Okinawa Poems - Poems about Okinawa

Premium Member The Last Survivor
...Harold John Bray, Jr., Seaman 2C- The last surviving member of the iconic Navy vessel the USS Indianapolis. The Indy was a capitol ship that just returned statewide for major repairs and refitting, f......

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Categories: okinawa, boat, fear, in memoriam,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Pink Flamingo
...Pink hue flamingo it must be due to all the carotenoid pigments feasted on algae and crustaceans An elongated neck spirals and filters such sensations Sharing color is Okinawa salmon sushi, ......

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Categories: okinawa, bird,
Form: Burlesque



Premium Member Thank You For Your Service
...Thank You For Your Service “Thank you for your service." How many times have I heard that. Do they know or understand? Do they really care? I fought at Bloody Antiet......

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Categories: okinawa, veterans day,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Freedom On the ballot 2024
...I wish these were different times, when I could write about pollen and bee, when I could write about silvery moons, and adventurous pathways on uncharted romantic sea -- But all I can write ......

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Categories: okinawa, christian, corruption, courage, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Don Juan
...I would like dark chocolate, but I need you Cadbury alone won't do I'll climb the Himalayan for you, because When I'm with you, really with you Grand Central can come in, yet fade thin, as I bas......

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Categories: okinawa, appreciation, chocolate, dedication, for
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Soldier Named Desmond Doss
...Help me save just one They are so many I have reason for no gun I refuse the use of any Use me to carry him On my back to safety It’s now dark, dim Just one, help me To what am I assigned......

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Categories: okinawa, soldier, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Onslaught
...#One should be cautious in starting a war, but once begun, it should be carried out thoroughly# #Quote by Hirohito circa Dec 1942# Onslaught As little......

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Categories: okinawa, allusion, america, world war
Form: Rhyme
The Terrifying Teens
...the Terrifying Teens 2010 The dark days of the great recession Begin slowly to fade away Ending my Barbados experience -the best job in the foreign service on high note best labor officer a......

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Categories: okinawa, age, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: Blank verse
2019 Year That Was
...the year that was January The world watches in amazement Longest shut down in history Watching it all in Korea contemplating escaping the cold winter February World watches as North ......

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Categories: okinawa, age, america, angst, anniversary,
Form: Blank verse
Rosetan People
...R Roseta is famous now, Italian town, beautifully "backward" O Okinawa, Japan, shared health wonders with Roseta S Science proves both sides: Lonely folks "smoke" 15 cigarettes E Even when they a......

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Categories: okinawa, anxiety, community, health, heart,
Form: Acrostic
More Okinawa Poems
...Signs everywhere in Asia you see strange variations of English Japlish, Konglish, Singlish the street signs in Okinawa are all in Chinese, Japanese, English and Koreans the bus and train ann......

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Categories: okinawa, appreciation, travel,
Form: Free verse
Okinawa Poems
...Okinawa War thoughts these dark moods follow me as I tour Okinawa where the last battles of world war 11 were fought thousands died in the first and last outpost of the American Eas......

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Categories: okinawa, beautiful, beauty, travel,
Form: Free verse
The Greatest Generation
...THE GREATEST GENERATION by JOHN M. ARRIBAS Many Have Called Them the Greatest Generation They Had Struggled and Survived, an Ugly Depression It Was an Era of Hard Times and Simple Divers......

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Categories: okinawa, america, courage, freedom, patriotic,
Form: Free verse
Kin In Okinawa
...Kin In Okinawa In Okinawa is where we had some kin; Trump a tower there building had been; Was a shyster, And a heister, And off from my nose came much skin. Jim Horn......

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Categories: okinawa, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Symbol of Freedom
...Freedom aint Freedom, said the gravelly Voice the beauty of Freedom is that it gives you a Choice the symbol of Freedom lies in Old Glory Normandy, Okinawa, Vietnam and many like Stories Freedo......

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Categories: okinawa, freedom, patriotic, peace, pride,
Form: Rhyme

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