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On Base Poems - Poems about On Base

Premium Member REMEMBERING SENATOR BOB GRAHAM POLICE CAPTAIN FALSIFYING DOCUMENTS AND JAY TOWNSEND JOHNSON HENRY
...I THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMPASSION AND KINDNESS FOR DISABLED VETERANS AND THEIR DISABLED FAMILIES MY DIRE NEED HAD BECOME INTENSE DUE TO MY WORK WEARING WIRES PREGNANT FOR THE FBI AFTER BEING INFORMED T......

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Categories: on base, allah,
Form: Naat
Premium Member Thought Of You Today
... Been raining all week. This morning started off with a bit of sun and it got me reminiscing. About my youth. About you. Next month marks one year since your passing. We spent the last seven months ......

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Categories: on base, appreciation, in memoriam,
Form: Haibun



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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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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Categories: on base, adventure, angel, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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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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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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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Categories: on base, absence, animal, beach, business,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member 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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Categories: on base, heart, humor, military,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member 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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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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Categories: on base, baby, birth, grandmother,
Form: Bio
Premium Member 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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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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Categories: on base, analogy, animal, feelings, heart,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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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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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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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Categories: on base, america, remember, soldier,
Form: Free verse

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