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General George S PattonHigh ranking General George S. Patton.
His mission the enemy to flatten.
To his troops he exclaimed without blinking,
If everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn’t thinking.
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Categories:
military,
Form: Clerihew
A honey baked lifePromised a honey baked life by Uncle Sam,
a V.A. loan, and a mini-van.
Three kids and a fenced yard.
It should be attainable to those who
worked so hard.
They served, they sacrificed as mother's wept,
came home to be...
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Categories:
america, military,
Form: Rhyme
SPECIAL AGENT GONE BADSPECIAL AGENT ALAN KING FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION CHICAGO FIELD OFFICE I ALWAYS KNEW SOMETHING WAS OFF WITH ALAN I MEAN AFTER ALL HE WAS ACTUALLY WORKING FOR WANNABE MOBSTERS CIRO GARGANO WHO TRULY BELIEVED...
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Categories:
america, anxiety, military, thank
Form: Free verse
The BattlePikes held high,
Flags fill the sky,
Drummer boys sound the beat,
Musket men are on their feet.
White smoke swirls, ram down the ball really hard,
Pour in the gunpowder to make the charge.
Front rank kneel, back rank stand...
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Categories:
military, anxiety, death, depression, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
FBI ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOIS CRISIS TEAM IDENTITY FRAUD AGAINST CONFIDENTIAL HUMAN SOURCESCRISIS TEAM: HELLO WE ARE HERE TO HELP
AGENT BROWN: HELLO I'M AGENT BROWN IN DIRE NEED OF THE FBI HELP AFTER I CONTACTED THE FBI ABOUT THE ARSON MURDERER OF 9 CIRO GARGANO AND HIS...
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Categories:
america, analogy, anxiety, military,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Band of brothers diamante
Categories:
military, character, film, inspirational, memorial
Form: Diamante
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOISCRISIS SESSION FBI HUMAN RESOURCE DIVISION NON-REDACTED
FBI: HELLO WHAT IS YOUR EMERGENCY
AGENT BROWN: HELLO THIS IS AGANT BROWN AND THAT DARK PLACE IS RETURNING AGAIN I AM IN CRISIS AGAIN
FBI: OKAY WE ARE HERE...
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Categories:
military, america, analogy, anxiety, mental
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Don't UnderestimateDon't you think blindly
The rifle has its own eye
To kill somebody....
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Categories:
confidence, fear, integrity, military,
Form: Haiku
ChasingFirst, the bear chase you
Then, put down spear close to
Aiming for the chest....
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Categories:
adventure, courage, engagement, military,
Form: Haiku
Price For FreedomWe bury our friends
Those in green suits bet the price
Up close, I surmise....
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Categories:
engagement, freedom, military, perspective,
Form: Haiku
The Aviators' AlphabetA 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...
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Categories:
military, conflict, flying, history, howl,
Form: Abecedarian
Oh say can you seeOh say can you see blood soaked
Baltimore reeking of falsified documents
blood soaked levies oh say can you see
corruption over board Atta Mohammed
and Bin Laden brought to trial on this land
oh...
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Categories:
military, america, emotions, faith, giving,
Form: Free verse
Basic Training, Survival of the Fittest
The humidity was doing a good job of keeping pace with the temperature. Until around 10 AM when the thermometer pushed its way past 100. That’s when 176 frightened kids and a few old hippies...
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Categories:
military,
Form: Haibun
On the Train
We ride the train at night. Store front signs flash neon onto our faces through the window. Red, green, blue in words we don’t know. Four foreigners crowded in with a hundred faces. They speak...
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Categories:
military,
Form: Haibun
Ability And Desire
Ability And Desire
Miracle Man
3/15/2024
When in his youth he was filled with desires,
now sometimes his age causes him to digress.
To do youthful things he no longer aspires,
but today his thoughts are difficult to express.
He...
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Categories:
age, desire, military,
Form: Quatrain
Specific Types of Military Poems
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