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Omaha Poems - Poems about Omaha

Omaha Poems - Examples of all types of poems about omaha to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for omaha.

Premium Member The Higgins Boat
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...Read the rest...
Categories: omaha, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member THE EVER DWINDLING FEW - USA version
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...Read the rest...
Categories: omaha, america, beach, conflict, history,
Form: Rhyme



7:50, 12-31-87, Omaha
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...Read the rest...
Categories: omaha, sorrow,
Form: Free verse

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Premium Member Ellies Omaha Game
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...Read the rest...
Categories: omaha, fun, games, people,
Form: Rhyme
The Omaha Gate
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...Read the rest...
Categories: omaha, faith, fear,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Oh Omaha
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...Read the rest...
Categories: omaha, analogy, city, community,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member November 20th 2021st In Omaha
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...Read the rest...
Categories: omaha, granddaughter,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Omaha
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...Read the rest...
Categories: omaha, courage, fate, war,
Form: Sonnet
The Ghosts Behind the Graves On Omaha Beach
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;...Read the rest...
Categories: omaha, death, dedication, hero, history,
Form: Narrative
Omaha S U N
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...Read the rest...
Categories: omaha, cool, culture, deep, eulogy,
Form: Free verse
Bloody Omaha
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...Read the rest...
Categories: omaha, death, history, loss, places,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Omaha Beach
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...Read the rest...
Categories: omaha, warmen, men,
Form: Rhyme

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