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The Loser's Heart
...Never count your chicken before they hatch because you cannot tell what is hiding around the back, never build your hopes too high or place your dreams above the sky, when in doubt, do your researche......
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Christine Phillips
Categories:
on base,
america, career, endurance, environment,
Form:
Narrative
I leave buying food at the market to the spouse
...I leave buying food at the market to the spouse... one helluva comparative humdinger savvy shopper, who can rattle off the best buy for most any given item, at the drop of a hat analogous to ......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
on base,
adventure, angel, anxiety, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOIS
...CRISIS SESSION FBI HUMAN RESOURCE DIVISION NON-REDACTED FBI: HELLO WHAT IS YOUR EMERGENCY AGENT BROWN: HELLO THIS IS AGANT BROWN AND THAT DARK PLACE IS RETURNING AGAIN I AM IN CRISIS AGAIN FB......
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Yolanda Nicholsen
Categories:
on base,
allah, recovery from,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Short Journey
...They are running from camp to camp, carrying all that they have, big bundles mounted on their head with an appointment to meet the dead. A few weeks ago, they had a fortified home with maid service,......
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Christine Phillips
Categories:
on base,
caregiving, change, community, confidence,
Form:
Narrative
Rolling Tides
...Midnight darkness suddenly descended upon the city as morning peeped through the blackened sky the city waits in suspense to die. They have been working for several days battening up windows and ......
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Christine Phillips
Categories:
on base,
absence, animal, beach, business,
Form:
Narrative
Whats Happenings
...Perchance, happenstance, my sailor found me as I arrived (a package deal) but I stole his heart and wouldn’t share, though some so-and-so tried. She’s lucky she’s still alive. Thankfully my sailor......
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Kim Rodrigues
Categories:
on base,
heart, humor, military,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Sixty-Eight and Sixty-Nine
...Sixty-eight and Sixty-nine By Franklin Price 02/03/2022 In January sixty-eight, I was sent to Vietnam, Was no internet back then, no Facebook, only Spam I went to serve my country. Had signed ......
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Franklin Price
Categories:
on base,
life,
Form:
Couplet
Labour Pains
...As we breathed together she and I, in through nose, out through mouth, her partner stood behind. Heel of his hand on base of her spine. With each deep intake he pressed harder, in a circular mot......
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Jean Murray
Categories:
on base,
baby, birth, grandmother,
Form:
Bio
Frankly My Dear, We Have a Lot To Fear
...Northerners are heading south Blue and Orange in an east coast bout Right now individuals who are sweet and peach Relaxing sunning on a Tampa Bay beach Not showing power To those folks on a......
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Marc O'Brien
Categories:
on base,
america, baseball, community, peace,
Form:
Rhyme
The Heart, a Feral Beast
...The heart, a feral beast The heart, an indigent and feral beast, Is a wily and treacherous creature Enticing me to act on base instincts, Who is the slave and who is the master? July 2......
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John Hamilton
Categories:
on base,
analogy, animal, feelings, heart,
Form:
Free verse
My Nolan Ryan Story
...GROWING UP ACROSS THE STREET FROM TIGER STADIUM HAS ITS ADVANTAGE AND DISADVANTAGES. BEING A YOUNGSTER HOT HUMID MUGGY SUMMER NIGHT. DETROIT MICHIGAN. JULY NINETEEN HUNDRED AND 73 WOULD TURN......
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Michael E. Harris
Categories:
on base,
baseball, memory,
Form:
Free verse
I'M Into Me a Secret Mine
...I'm into me a secret mine, sentient treasure walking on me, a pavement of thinking maybe a knowledge or light I learn every atom of inside with insight sometimes imperceptibly I come out an......
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Mahtab Bangalee
Categories:
on base,
introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Ghost of Chu Chi
...Crawling down the tunnels Of Chu Chi I could almost imagine The Viet Kong guerillas Hiding deep under the tunnels As the land above is turned Into a temporary dessert With the vegetation......
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Jake Aller
Categories:
on base,
america, remember, soldier,
Form:
Free verse
January '68 Chapter 2
...It was January '68 Chapter 2 – Phan Rang - 1st TDY by Franklin Price 3/5/2019 Raking sand got old real soon Was not why I came to war My job was not for combat The reason why I thought was m......
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Franklin Price
Categories:
on base,
conflict, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Red Sox Champs Update
...Game 5 starts with a bang, a base hit then home run by Pearce right away Red Sox are 2 to 0! Go Sox – Yay! Then the Dodgers come back with a home run on the 1st swing! Making it 2 to 1, as their ......
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Heidi Sands
Categories:
on base,
baseball, celebration,
Form:
Rhyme
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