Paratroopers Poems | Examples

Invasion

Paratroopers stealthily slide unnoticed,
chutes deployed, small blazes of white obscured by
fog that lingers lazily, til their numbers
    cover the meadow…

Faster, faster, not just content to cover,
reinforcements filling in, words unspoken,
synchronized with perfect precision, ever
    picking up tempo…

Occupation utterly overwhelming,
swamped defenses, raising a flag, surrender.
Long, the arm of conquering winter, brings a
    lengthening shadow…

Flying Blind Like the Dodo

on a shoestring diet only going around in circles ~ yo yo 

inside a huge tornado just somewhere over the rainbow ~ toto

happily oblivious on a corkscrew rollercoaster ~ ho ho

somersaulting off the high board heading for a bellyflop ~ no no

paratroopers landing awkwardly behind enemy lines ~ go go

highly intelligent beings orbit the densest planet ~ so so

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Tasmanian Devils

TASMANIAN DEVILS

The house next door
had flames in the windows
We watched from the street as
the firemen arrived, four rigs responding, 
Engine Company 5 – The Tasmanian Devils
Engines and ladders, axes and hoses, abundant
testosterone surrounded and entered, laid into
that fire like an infantry platoon doing necessary 
work through the hedgerows of France in the 
summer of ‘44
“Cute little girl!” said the tall young man as 
the water and smoke later sizzled
in the char

Twelve years later, at a different address,
three rigs responding, Tasmanian Devils and a
gasoline smell in the storm sewer system, same
tough young men, little action this time, a band
of paratroopers with no enemy in sight
The tall fire lieutenant remembered my face
but not my new wife and proffered the question
to set memory right
“How’s your little girl?” said the voice of 
command with the steely gray eyes
I said “She died a year later!” and he looked through
us both, reached for the catalogue of the suffering he
had seen, shifted his gaze and called out to his men,
mounted his rig and tightened his face, surprised
once again at the number of ways that 
a fireman finds death!

I Have Never Done This Before

I was astounded to find myself teaching paratroopers how to jump.
I honestly have never done this before! I said. My voice sounded whiney.
A plane full of handsome young marines laughed in unison.
The impetuous I needed to wake up.  Marines don’t laugh.

Falling

Southern Hemisphere
Northern Hemisphere
Like sleeping companions tugging the suns warmth from each other
One hoarding it, one exposed
And leaves quivering like exposed limbs
Until the trees jettison them like paratroopers
Each one swings in the currents chilly
As if held by an oscillating string 
A succession of falling pendulums

I Marvel At the Stealth of My Ideas

Jumbled up in the bowls of my brain
Are poetry words that do not rhyme
They take my imagination hostage
But do not let me take my time.

They are creeping out of my dendrite path
Landing fiercely on a virginal page
The white is rapidly filling up with words
From my muse, not the sage.

I can see some landing like paratroopers
And I mavel at their stealth
They are flying from my gray matter
Bringing me emotional health

For when I am in writing world
Which I do for my own sake
It is as if I am gifting myself
A reality-driven break.

Rolling out like thunder now
Words slide upon the paper
Where are they coming from I ask?
But the only thing I see is vapor.

My muse is slick sassy and smart

The Eagle Has Landed -A Title Poem Free Verse

 The Eagle Has LANDED -A TITLE POEM/Free Verse








Theparatroopers safely landed in England, 
Eagle were their names in code.
Has not Heinrich Himmler informed us,
Landed in order to kidnap “Sir Winston Churchill”.








9/27/19
Written by James Edward Lee Sr. 2019©




TITLE POEM
Take the title of your favorite book (or movie or song) and use each of the words as the beginning of a line.

Moving Clouds

Sky paratroopers
coming with quivers of rain
to fight against men

Poems For the Night 4

"If there ever comes a time 
When you forget your dreams
And wonder what there is in life for you to see
And the burden is too heavy for you to float freely
The stars will come to meet you
They will let gravity grab them and become like
paratroopers 
Falling to the ground
Blasting holes in your amnesia as they shoot
and making you remember that there are still things
in this life that are worth seeing and experiencing
Even if just for a brief moment"

Turn and Toss

Turn and Toss

Seventy years ago it had been
When Normandy Invasion we were in
Bombs would explode and bullets flash
And on occasion a plane did crash.

Even a ship sank just off shore
And many will never see anymore
Samuel Chase is name of one ship
Which under water slowly would slip.

Jack Schlegel of 82d was last one out
Still there seemed to be much doubt
As the paratroopers got quite a scare
Looked back and plane exploded in midair.

Boys who were Bedford's both were there
Stories of their deaths many still share
Only eight thousand veterans are left alive
Nearly ten thousand buried who didn't survive.

Those who died are high in heaven now
And still remember their souls somehow
And when we will see every white cross
Dreams always cause us to turn and Toss.

The Mime Apocalypse

overheard someone quietly frightened
by the stupid ****ing Mayan calendar 
ending, someone sold the “apocalypse”
****, 
hook
line &
sinker,
who still eats it up, eats it up, eats it up,
regardless of how many scientists you
throw in their face,
regardless of how many ways one might,
to a point of immeasurable exhaustion,
try & dig out all the horrid christian ********
which has been piled on them during their
lifetime, 
like sandbags in a war that never existed to begin
with
&
when s/he was nervously talking about it on
this one particular day,
s/he misspoke, calling it the “mime apocalypse,”
wherein, my own mind conjured up something
much more entertaining,
an “apocalypse” which would really 
go out with a whimper,
rather than a bang,
like a needle dropped from the tallest skyscraper
& then 
subsequently
echoing on the
pavement below,
to drown out even the faintest of whispers,
as the mimes
invading the world by the billions,
came falling themselves
as mime paratroopers
to climb invisible walls,
pull invisible ropes,
shoot invisible guns &
juggle invisible 
grenades,
pushing the lot of us to a truly blissful
point of absurdity.

Parachuters

In the mid air like
Paratroopers floating fair
Parachuters in air.

Build-A-Bear

To the Build-A-Bear Store
With granny in tow
Do you remember?

What was you four?
Say you remember
Only one or two

Well maybe  three
Still sitting upon
Granny's knee

When we opened
The door to
The place

Why it was a
Virtual zoo
Animals wasting

To be filled 
Waiting to be glued(sewn)
First you

Had to put a
Heart from
The very start

Then you
Pressed the
Button and 

Filled the
Animal with
Stuffing

Then she
Sewed him
Shut

But he had 
No clothes
You got

To pick them
Out from
500 different ones

You picked 
A camoflauged
Paratroopers

Outfit just
For your
Beautiful

Green frog
Which you
Named

Turtle
I remember
Too

The Descent (Senryu)

descend from the clouds
while blasting enemy lines
Ahhh!—paratroopers


© Joseph, 1/20/08
© All Rights Reserved


Comments: I wanted to be an air force fighter pilot when I inquired into joining 
ROTC in college.  I didn't have 20/20 vision at the time so I could not.  So guess 
what?  I became a hard-charging paratrooper!  Since they would not let me fly, I 
made the decision to jump from a perfectly good airplane while in flight.  
LOL!!! “Airborne—All The Way.”   “Then Some!” Ahhh!!!

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