Omaha Poems - Poems about Omaha

The Higgins Boat gray-green heaving seas men retching and gagging oh Lord don’t let me die Jesus let me live to go home rancid smell of sweat and urine putrid scent of soiled pants could I make it could I survive will I do my duty salt spray crashing into the boat sobs for mother muffled explosions like thunder coxsun counting down destination Omaha the steel ramp opens ...

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THE EVER DWINDLING FEW - USA Version Beach Omaha At Omaha an old man stands and limps down to the shore, Where on this sand he crawled and ran so many years before. The skirl of pipes still in the air, the ceremony o'er, He knows the ghosts who haunt this...

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The world keeps turning, The sun keeps rising, Cold wind blows from over the horizon, Blows across the planet to smite me. Getting dressed this a.m. in the boreal dark I heard an AM station from Chicago--- Driving to work in the arctic morning I listened to a song about Brooklyn--- After another fight with her last night, A fight whose icy silent echoes...

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Saturday I was invited to Ellie’s Omaha game Even though I lost I’m glad I came! The group of 10 were lots of fun Especially when Jerry’s yarns were spun! “Big O” it’s called and it can drive you nuts! In order to win you’ve gotta have guts! I’ll play again cause I’m “sick” like the rest For every time we play...

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Lost in a card game that others would pass I feel the time slowing while covering fast A dim all-night roadhouse blue plate of regret whose neon but flickers my hunger to bet A pot full of memory has come unannounced with bare knuckled waging I raise every doubt But the road’s calling silent its direction unclear my thumb pointing inward to ante the fear The odds long but...

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Oh! Omaha what with your Woodman Tower Not covered what it's higher First National Bank As the mighty Mo! Missouri River separates Nebraska and Iowa Two strong mighty buildings that towers That touch just below the clouds floor Oh! Nebraska's biggest metropolitan City 12/13/21 Written by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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November 20th 2021st Walgreen’s parking lot, Omaha Nebraska 7:30 p.m. Police in cars have stopped pursuing Gang Member A aka GMA. A young woman’s car door gets pulled open. GMA yells “Get the F……. out!” She thinks he is joking. He grabs her and throws her out of the car. It is HER car. Her purse. Her stuff. She is young, and upset. She jumps back...

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OMAHA Peaceful solitude, stoic patriots share. Pure white rows atop lush lawns of virgin green. Guards of Omaha at Colleville sur Mer Young souls bartered when feckless old minds convene. Wresting just liberty for lifetimes to be Brave hearts manned the boats for fate destined to share. Glory would leap from tales when all were set free. Six miles of Hell awaited those...

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They were young then, now they would be old men looking across an empty beach, the sun at their back; for many this would be their last day to grow old; dead in the water; dying on the sand of Omaha Beach. Memories. Three long hours smashing through the pounding white capped waves; cold and hard as...

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V I V E R E N T  strip malls Morphing into T O M O R R O W ' S V A C A N T parking lots. Silent and neglected F O R E V E R protected, By a weeping S K Y-D A N C E R-J E S U S who's shadow ...

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Midnight June the 5th 1944 me and my buddies departed Weymouth and put out to sea To smash through Hitlers eastern wall to liberate Europe and make her once again free We knew some,most of us wouldnt be coming back As we neared Omaha beach at 4am we started to take German flak From high above us we could...

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Where once Normandy's coast resounded with the din of war, Now is heard the thunder of the surf racing t'ward the shore. Where once was heard the screams of dying and wounded men, Now is heard the mournful cry of a solitary tern now and then. In June of Forty-four, men stormed ashore to force a breach. Alas, many forfeited...

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