Spitfires Poems - Poems about Spitfires

... John Hemingway has died at the age of a hundred and five It was the luck of the Irish he said that helped him to survive At the age of nineteen he left his home in County Dublin And ......

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...His restless wolves still taunt each dauntless ship, though sly attrition neutralized their hunt, for subterfuge let not a whisper slip as vantage shifted on the battlefront. A riddle solved unve......

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...RISKS Scarred hills, risked mine shafts, dark and deep. The plonk of a stone, dropped into water, far below. Kids drifted to sounds of the gold-rush, pick and windlass. But inside our school,......

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... "19 Davenport" Spitfires lined in regimental row Amberley in Autumn fuel burns on the runway mirages burn slow Wings counted His Adjutan......

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...Frisky frolicsome ace acrobats defying gravity like that ___ Skipping across lawn arching, rippling endless sassy-fussing spitfires......

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...Disability, Illness and Fundamentalism My brother died of Cystic Fibrosis, When I was twelve and he fourteen, It took away his ambitions, To study at Oxford - the pipe organ’s steam. I u......

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...Jumped by fighters Hiding in the Sun Firing Brownings and Hispanos Young lad was on the run But quick the fighters learned Their surprise was for naught Soon they were the hunted Th......

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... "Road to Lovejoy - Piano for the Self Taught" (Part 2) His name was Flight Left-Tennant V.C.Burton, or "Victor Charlie Bravo", when he got pulled over by the cops, expla......

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...Hawker Hurricane was his plane. Karubin was chasing a German fighter at tree top level, when his Hurricane had run out of ammunition. Karubin closed the distance and climbed right above ......

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...>I must be honest, being new to this poetry, I do not understand half the terms describing types of poems, hence you will see a lot of, ' I do not know,' At the moment on my local BBC radio station......

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...Supermen in death machines, \were driven off, hot lead was seen, twas Hitler's Albatross. the Nazis so obscene, clawed from the skies the cost, Brave men in Spitfires lost, won B......

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...I spied the dark little spitfires fork-tailed and white breasted, over the river bank and then my head they crested Then the couple would part to scour the tops of the reeds and meet triumph......

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...Balcony birds eye view Tiny gardens as tin soldiers Tight in a row Some as spoilt cherished children Desired domains Some have dinked boxes Former relished Remains....yet still standing One seems......

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...Spare change was rare at our house when I was a lad, But you could bet on it, when I got a quarter from my Dad, I didn't blow it on mundane things like a baseball or a mitt! I flew to the local Fi......

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...Look here, Tiger. Back off, or your tennis balls might get caught. In my own talons, of course. Stronger now this rubbery slope. And I slip inside my spinal column to avoid your spi......

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