Short Lifers Poems

I Salute the Veterans
By Franklin Price
11/8/2015

I salute the veterans
My hand is to my brow
Standing at attention
I recognize us now

My brothers and my sisters
Short timers, lifers, all
I commend us for our service
When our country came to call

We answered to our nation 
To protect an oath we gave
All of us gave something 
Some gave all unto the grave...

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pathetic,
pitiful &
pigheaded
perry
peddling his
propaganda by
preying on the
populace,
painting a
picture of the
“popular
pious
politician,” who
profanely
prays for
profit,
professing his
partisan
poisonous
pledges to the
predominant
party leaders,
potential donors &
practioners in his
parish of 
paranoid
pro-lifers & anti-gay rights
pontificators, who are
pushing for his
potential run in the republican presidential
primary....

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I love vocabulary games, and these odd words came up in English words games, recently: Bute ( I know "Butte" but not BUTE)  & "abseil," "landau," and even "Bourne" (identity?).

A poem about a simpler word, FLIERS.

When we say FLY, 
Buzzing by and by
Which is it?
Plane or insect?
But when we use "Fliers"
The letters reveal secrets:
"liFe," "selF," "lies" & "Flies" again
LIFERS is best of all
In this game; Hope for us all...

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