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Tommies Poems - Poems about Tommies


Premium Member Jack-o'-lanterns
...just boys a band of loose sprats wearing unstable trousers gutter gnomes toppling the refuse holders like tetchy tommies predating trash with a meticulous hope one more night plowing he......

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Categories: tommies, children, conflict, endurance, poverty,
Form: Suzette Prime
Premium Member A Blues Sonnet for Jan
...Event: Anglo-Boer War 1899–1902—Measles epidemic in the concentration camps. In the voice of: Sannie Botha (a survivor). Jan’s cough kept me awake all through the night. The children ar......

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Categories: tommies, africa, conflict, endurance,
Form: Sonnet



Scarlet Ribbons
...Scarlet Ribbons Angry bullets curse and swear Paint scarlet ribbons through your ice blonde hair Scarlet ribbons burst the skies Scarlet ribbons haunt my eyes Then time stands still as I dri......

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Categories: tommies, irony, love, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Un-Famous Last Words
...Those Tommies send their planes in large amounts They drop their bombs but all they do is bounce Like rubber balls their bouncy bombs all missed Those British pilots must be really… ......

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Categories: tommies, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Time
...Time is a sieve through which everything slips what once mattered rendered meaningless as our lifeblood drips onto the clay creating a muddy bog that in our well worn boots we wearily s......

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Categories: tommies, age, fate, time, world
Form: Rhyme




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