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Peace Corps Poems - Poems about Peace Corps

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I Love K Food
...I love Korean food K food Ever since I first Encountered it in 1979 When I joined the Peace Corps Korean food is somewhat like Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Thai With some American i......Read the rest...
Categories: peace corps, food,
Form: Ode



Who Killed the President
...Who killed the president? It was a fine forenoon when the pilot left the ship in Wilhelmshaven in Curacao, bound for Maracaibo, Venezuela the sea was like a mirror at ease being back on the ocean......Read the rest...
Categories: peace corps, america, betrayal, corruption,
Form: Blank verse
The Dream Epiphany That Changed Everything
...the Dream Epiphany that changed everything One day I had a dream An epiphany of sorts That changed my life forever. I fell asleep in a high school class In Berkeley, California And saw th......Read the rest...
Categories: peace corps, deep, desire, dream, fate,
Form: Free verse
The Love Gods Smiled On Us
...The Love Gods Smiled on Us I have had a fairy tale life I met and married the girl Of my dreams She came to me In a dream In 1974 She was the most beautiful women In the whole world......Read the rest...
Categories: peace corps, god, heaven, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Devastation of World Hunger
...I'm appalled and devastated about world hunger A crisis that can't be overlooked Signs are so rampant and wide spread People are starving here in our nation World governments won't take action ......Read the rest...
Categories: peace corps, change,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member There's So Much Left To Learn
...There’s SO MUCH Left to Learn! There’s so much left to learn, dreams I hope I can share that I haven’t touched yet, more new dawns still to bloom. And I’m blessed by my m......Read the rest...
Categories: peace corps, love,
Form: Rhyme
Ode To Frank Zappa
...Frank Zappa Was always my musical hero Ever since I first heard his music Back in 1974 He blew me away With his musical genius His satirical wit His mastery of rock Classical and jazz influ......Read the rest...
Categories: peace corps, desire, muse, music, satire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jfk's Inauguration Day
...JFK delivered a rousing speech on Inauguration Day Peace Corps, New Frontier, Camelot -- He had so much to say Yet so many folks don't recall any of that All they remember's he took off hi......Read the rest...
Categories: peace corps, giggle, leadership, remember, visionary,
Form: Clerihew
Falling In Love With My Dream Girl
...Falling in love with my dream woman When I was a young man I dreamt of meeting a woman For eight years she haunted my dreams Then I met her in Korea Where I was teaching For the U.S. army......Read the rest...
Categories: peace corps, beautiful, girl, love, lust,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Renaissance Man
...Renaissance Man I've aspired in my life to be Renaissance Man, be life's fool though world perp walks its way into sin. As a poet, through physics, my music, a friend, if I'm weak as a lover, I......Read the rest...
Categories: peace corps, journey, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Am I Vexed, No
...Am I Vexed? No! Am I vexed to face music? We both are ‘same sex.’ It’s beyond man to fathom the depth of man’s soul though perhaps a computer (imagined) might spin all t......Read the rest...
Categories: peace corps, best friend, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Merov's Ghost and Other Shots Across My Bow
...Merov’s Ghost (1) and Other Shots Across My Bow! In mid-November of Fourteen, I published my first web verse here, (2) the earliest spanned sixty years, composed for Senio......Read the rest...
Categories: peace corps, blessing, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tasting Africa, One L----Ick At a Time - Part 1
...Tasting Africa (One L****ick at a Time) Part 1 (Though the title's a joke, my limericks are not!) 1. Life's Always an Adventure (Morogoro) ......Read the rest...
Categories: peace corps, africa, appreciation, journey, life,
Form: Rhyme
Korean Blues Crown of Sonnets
...Korean Blues Crown of Sonnets I have been dealing? with Things Korean ?for almost 40 years now dealing ?with a once exotic land? now my second homeland ?first came to Korea? In the Peace Corps......Read the rest...
Categories: peace corps, america, kiss, language, life,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Kimchi Blues
...Oh yeah  I got the kimchi blues every day since I first ate it back in the day long before i went to Korea ended up staying on in Korea after i retired from decade in the Foreign Service ......Read the rest...
Categories: peace corps, addiction, desire, food,
Form: Free verse

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