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Short Mess Hall Poems

Short Mess Hall Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Mess Hall by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Mess Hall by length and keyword.


Privileged College
Elitist school hovering;
     Hummingbird-like wind laden migrating.
     Evening mess hall dining;
     Past the locked gate....

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Categories: mess hall, school,
Form: Free verse



The Pacific
The Pacific 

The ship was going down a water mountain
only to be met with another mountain and
going up and up, this dizzying dance no rest
only holding on for life hoping the Typhon 
would blow itself out.
Towards morning the see was simmering 
down leaving us to try working, but the talk 
in the mess hall was subdued....

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Categories: mess hall, cheer up, chicago, children, cinco de mayo,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Christmas Eve
I was born with Mary
By my side
With thoughts and lockets
As thoughts get mangled
As Time pulls near
Moments flicker, life-like
Through wine and cheer
Sadness sweeps 
The shore of souls, 
My shore,
As I recall,
Of the holiday mess hall,
I was born
I was born on Christmas Eve
With a locket
With a locket of Her hair....

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Categories: mess hall, holiday, love,
Form: Free verse
Jayne In a Man's Field
Jayne in a Man’s Field

I wrote on a Porsche “Take the Jayne Train”
How long in the mess hall would she remain
She came out and saw
She smiled, I said duh
Took a photo with her less my brain

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*I actually took a photo with Jayne Mansfield
at an airbase in Holland when she was doing a touring promotion back in ’58. Lovely lady!...

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Categories: mess hall, humorous,
Form: Limerick

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