The Aviators' Alphabet
...A is for Airspeed who graduated from Oxford
B is for Bristol with their whispering giants
C is for Convair and Canadair also
B recalls Boulton-Paul who built many Defiants.
D for De Havil...
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Categories:
vickers, conflict, flying, history, howl,
Form: Abecedarian
Francais Ont Fais - French Made
...I’ve got size ten feet, you know what that implies
Maybe that's why there’s a spark in her eyes
She said if I give her a hand ’round the house
She’ll give me a naughty surprise
She held out ...
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Categories:
vickers, fantasy, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Feeding the Strawberries
...Charlie and Arthur Johnson are not milking cows no more,
they’re running beef and sheep along with free-range chooks galore.
Their hobby now is ‘trotters’ (most were those you wouldn’t back)
They ...
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Categories:
vickers, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Earth's Humane Rights To Healthy Climates
...In 1968,
a time of great concern for healthy human civil rights
for and of women as well as LeftBrain culturally dominant men,
Gregory Bateson invited a Symposium
not quite a finished Symphony
p...
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Categories:
vickers, culture, earth, environment, health,
Form: Prose Poetry
Sunderland N For Nuts
...Sunderland N for Nuts 461 Squadron
Sunderland fought alone the Battle Of Biscay in.1943
Big old seaplane Sunderland, fought in the Battle Of Biscay
Had 4 engines, would she float, would Germa...
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Categories:
vickers, adventure, old, home, home,
Form: Ballad