Recruits Poems - Poems about Recruits

..."Cry Ugly" My deepest private searing pain manifests as "Cry Ugly.” Guttural moans race like a runaway train. The wail crescendos and peaks as a Banshee scream. Tears race down my face… my n......

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...He once stood at the top of the line Watching the sun creeping out from behind Hew wals with courage in his boot, and he just Know how to shoot, he did everything Perfectly well and he was good ......

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...In this new century of our Lord The gardener planted the young tree Placed in garden of Gethsemane An olive to the knee Around two thousand years have passed A beaten path close ......

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...When the trust busts in to your village Driving the lunatics in shackles Times must be goin' out of print Old Hearst's Castle isn't any good for climbing Seeing the waves of rocket fuel re......

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...BRONX SOLDIER ( this is a true story ) He was a soldier - Bronx born and raised and learned the streets at an early age .helping other people where ever he went- knowing about sacrifices and w......

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...Years ago, my aunt developed mesothelioma. She and her husband did not have money for medical care. It was a Jewish hospital that took her in, and helped her through her last days free of charge. T......

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...I don't remember when I looked up and heard a seagull's cries I don't remember the line of gold of my first sunrise I don't remember the time at Fire Island when Mom carried me to the sea I don't ......

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...BIRTHDAY CLUE AT DAWN At dawn In the little hours of a crow I spoke to my pen to rise Rise from bed to speak The language that at best I understand To the form and rhymes; I'm no stranger ......

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...She had blue eyes, but she was mean I am speaking of Nora, the pirate queen She tried to recruit the cousins, including me I ran from her, for she was always nasty you see I heard the only recr......

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...Ukraine and our shame Now that Ukraine is pardoning prisoners  to join the army, except the violent murderers (one would think the violent were the right ones) it tells us of an army scraping......

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...I was from a poor rural county in Iowa The kind that drafts young men during wars Back in the late sixties many of our men went to Viet Nam Some did not return, others returned damaged Patriots......

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...April showers Drip drip drop, Little April Showers, Falling from the clouds, The rain drops down Each drip and drop sounds Different as it hits the grounds Natures musical melo......

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... In this new century of our Lord The gardener planted the young tree Placed in garden of Gethsemane An olive to the knee Around two thousand years have passed A beaten path cl......

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...The thrust of salvation's revelation; Straight from the buckle of the Bible Belt - Crusading on a plan of what they felt: "The World for Christ in One Generation." Their causes - all so speciou......

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...At my first sight of him, I saw such a benevolence, the Cuban youth with mocha skin and bright root beer-brown eyes, he only loved me, I, a frivolous woman. He was nineteen, I was twenty-two, ......

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