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Servicemen Poems - Poems about Servicemen

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Premium Member Half-Mast
...Old Glory’s at half-mast today. I wonder who just passed away? Was it a hero from some battles past? A dead leader whose influence lasts? Were servicemen killed overseas, Or humanitari......Read the rest...
Categories: servicemen, america, children, grief, hate,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member What About These Two
...Two beauties were not quite flappers But Parisians, so almost that open Servicemen approached them cautiously Pulled up two chairs, flirted a bit. They humored them before sending them packing.......Read the rest...
Categories: servicemen, french,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Remembrance 22
...As Remembrance approaches this year Many an adult will shed a tear 2022 and casualties still fall Servicemen struggling to stand tall We think it's all about two world wars In reality it is ab......Read the rest...
Categories: servicemen, memorial day, remember, remembrance
Form: Free verse
Premium Member November 11, 2020
...The esteemed servicemen honored today, on this November 11, 2020, gave their lives for our sake -- We honor them by vowing we shall never forget duty to God, country, and compatriots. ......Read the rest...
Categories: servicemen, military, veterans day,
Form: Nonet
Premium Member Born Dumb in the USA
...Verse 1 Born dumb in Corn Pop’s town, first kickback he took was a Ukraine shake down, end up like a creep that sniffs hair too much ‘til you lie your whole life just coverin’ up, now… Cho......Read the rest...
Categories: servicemen, political, satire, song,
Form: Verse



Premium Member My Thoughtful Neighbors Adore the 4th
...My neighbors have been celebrating 4th of July for a week. It has finally arrived today. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. I think these patriots take time to nap between 11 and 2 every day. They have......Read the rest...
Categories: servicemen, july,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Thoughts On the War of Late
...“Where have all the flowers gone,” the poet wrote A metaphor for those lost in a cruel war of late Lives that were wrested from home and family And thrown into a milieu of humiliati......Read the rest...
Categories: servicemen, how i feel, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 100 Years On
...One hundred years ago in 1921 The 15th of May a new charity begun Amalgamating  charities of which there were  4 The Royal British Legion set up to aid those from the great war. Earl Haig and T......Read the rest...
Categories: servicemen, history, memorial, military, remembrance
Form: Free verse
Premium Member On the Run
...Words evade the inspiration of my muse My heart is too heavy, watching this atrocity Many people report that it will only get worse Servicemen killed with many people injured Photos of bloodied b......Read the rest...
Categories: servicemen, america, angst, dark, sad,
Form: Free verse
I, Too, Sing America, and Did So In My Diapers
...I, Too, Sing America (and did so in my diapers!) by Michael R. Burch I, too, served my country, first as a tyke, then as a toddler, later as a rambunctious boy, growing up on military bases aro......Read the rest...
Categories: servicemen, child, childhood, children, memorial,
Form: Free verse
Two-Bob
...The rain was what was remembered most As it tumbled down on that northern coast Milne Bay was our base and we stayed Against the Japanese when they held sway When I left home I said goodbye to ......Read the rest...
Categories: servicemen, love, remember, war,
Form: Epitaph
Layered Cake Pt 2
...Layered Cake pt 2 Further afield I met a gangster in Liverpool who was alrite He liked a right tear up and had a job to appear legit But his real work was in various things like drugs, guns and ......Read the rest...
Categories: servicemen, conflict, life, teenage,
Form: Verse
Anzac Tribute 2020
...Anzac Day 2020 By Jan Beaumont © As Anzac Day draws nearer and there's not so many left Of those bright eyed boys who left their native shores They were SO young, so hopeful of a life that prom......Read the rest...
Categories: servicemen, appreciation, memorial, memorial day,
Form: Verse
Milne Bay
...The heat and the wet is what you remember with dread When Australian Servicemen and American engineers stopped them dead The first defeat of the Japanese in New Guinea in their empire race It was ......Read the rest...
Categories: servicemen, remember, war,
Form: Ballad
One Hundred Flights
...ONE HUNDRED FLIGHTS Our mission was so special: to honor those who served, And we thought it important to give what they deserved. It could be a nice medal, but every soldier wears Some form o......Read the rest...
Categories: servicemen, veterans day,
Form: Rhyme

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