The World is Bleeding
...The world is bleeding
We stand at the edge of a precipice,
Looking in fear on our Earth,
Boiling, bubbling, and steaming,
With pools of blood flowing.
Warplanes blanket the sky.
V...
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Categories:
warplanes, angst, death, war,
Form: Free verse
The Art of War
...Hit them where it hurts
President Trump said “Ukraine has no cards to play to end war with Russia”. Yet deep inside Russia, Ukraine masterfully destroys over 40 warplanes that could carry nuclear ...
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Categories:
warplanes, war,
Form: Rhyme
Stability Serene
...Guns, erupt in city street?
Shake the ground we love?
Poison, corrupt what is sweet?
Hear us, God above...
Fan out, troops; if we hold back;
Soon our fabled state;
Will of course soon fade to...
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Categories:
warplanes, endurance, friendship, history, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Love, The Human Condition
...Why does love come with crying? When its totality settles in and the sacrifice is known, how else could it be? Love, so happenstance, making itself fodder for blues music, and it will break your he...
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Categories:
warplanes, lost love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Eminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpation
...Eminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpation...
Maternal grandfather of mine
long since passed among the living;
He left his Motherland
before onset of Holodomor,
a policy of the Soviet Union...
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Categories:
warplanes, abuse, age, anger, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Is This A Way To Live
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Is This a Way to Live”
“The Innocent”
As warplanes thunder overhead
We rise from our beds
And wonder,
Is this a way to live?
“The Soldier”
As he crouches in a frozen trench
Amidst t...
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Categories:
warplanes, emotions, sad, thanksgiving day,
Form: Free verse
Moscow
...Moscow
The winter sun, the sense of the cold season!
Heavy snowfall was closing the window of my car.
Tire sounds echo in the tracks of the road.
Confidence sound effect.
The noses of the tra...
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Categories:
warplanes, christian, travel,
Form: Free verse
Splashed Craft
...Splashed Craft
The war started decades ago
When alien craft flew here and there
Interacting with various aeroplanes
Some were good encounters
Others bad including crashes
And kidnapped planes i...
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Categories:
warplanes, flying, journey, satire, technology,
Form: Blank verse
Fate
..."Fate is something which we never ask for or desire to happen, but which takes place, sometimes by forces outside our control and sometimes through our own actions"
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Categories:
warplanes, angst, conflict, fate, war,
Form: Free verse
New Planes
...from SELL OUT
Nick Armbrister
New Planes
They say peace will reign but in America/they build many new warplanes/the new B-21 Raider bomber/what a nightmare dream for enemies/plus the superb V-2...
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Categories:
warplanes, america, flying, technology,
Form: Blank verse
Eminent Domain, Manifest Destiny, Usurpation
...Eminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpation...
Russian soldiers in general
and Vladimir Putin in particular
perpetrate outright injustice
against Ukrainian population.
Impossible mission to...
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Categories:
warplanes, abuse, anger, conflict, death,
Form: Free verse
Hill 1700
...Hill 1700
That's right
You can see most hills
But all are hours to hike to
As for the hill 1700
Did you climb it and look about?
What was the planes bombing tunnels?
I wanna see it
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Categories:
warplanes, america, history, war,
Form: Verse
There Is No Future
...Windmills and cornfields are all this life may seem.
Stories and hopes of a future is all we tend to dream,
children in the dark, as the shadow that covers the lark,
as the edge of the nig...
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Categories:
warplanes, america,
Form: ABC
The Old Man
...Sits beside his window, his red-rimed eyes
Unseeing
In his mind are sunsets and rainbows,
And shining stars in the dense cold blackness
Of space
He listens to the laughter of children, mi...
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Categories:
warplanes, absence, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Stalingrad
...Stalingrad
During moments I yearned for forests grown for me alone,
Caressing them in a dream,
I could sense the throbbing of the heart
Hidden beneath my ribs to bless my journey.
Summoning me with...
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Categories:
warplanes, love,
Form: I do not know?
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