Submachine Poems | Examples

I am the Boy Scouts who become 
Official. 
   I am Charlie Chaplin film that 
Makes you giggle. 

   I am the triangle shirtwaist  
Factory fire. 
   I am Margaret Sanger the birth 
Control supplier. 

   I am the Titanic sinks in 
The ocean. 
   I am the Spanish flu 
In motion. 

  I am the Red Baron takes 
To the sky. 
   I am Rockefeller that 
Billionaire guy. 

   I am the Coast Guard's first 
Day on the job. 
   I am the first crossword  
Puzzle to solve. 

   I am Tommy submachine 
Gun in supply. 
   I am Mata Hari the exotic 
Dancing spy. 

   I am the first Indy 
500 race. 
   I am the Oreo cookie, 
Can't wait to taste. 

   I am Mexico and Arizona 
Become states. 
   I am World War One starts 
To take shape. 

   I am the National Hockey league 
When it was formed. 
   I am Daylight savings time when 
It was born. 

   I am the international telephone 
Line. 
   I am prohibition no alcohol  
Or wine. 

      Turbo1904

I am a Sabra,*                 *A native-born Israeli
   Uzi** at the ready;           **Submachine gun (standard army issue)
   Confident, brave:
     "Yi'hi'ye tov!"***            ***"It'll be fine" - Hebrew for a Sabra's standard,
                                          incongruously optimistic hope for the future.
   Sunflower-seed shells
   Spat onto battlefields.
     Cigarette ash,
     Matted air;
     Everywhere dust,
     Tanks of rust.

   I am a Sabra,
   Uzi at the ready;
   Confident, brave:
     "Yi'hi'ye tov!"

   Child trapped
   In warrior's helmet:
     Gesturing heatedly,
     Laughing anxiously,
     Barbed-wire nerves
        Dangling
     Arms limp, weary
     Draped over coffins.

   I am a Sabra,
   Uzi at the ready;
   Confident, brave:
     "Yi'hi'ye tov!"

   Life goes on,
   A Time-bomb ticking:
   Can't cry anymore,
     Never could;
     Heart racing
     To the next Tragedy
     Bleeding my Soul.

   I am a Sabra,
   Uzi at the ready;
   Confident, brave:
     "Yi'hi'ye tov!"

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