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"gallantry" poems
Corruption! Corruption! Corruption! Where is corruption? Seems tone up statesmen notion Co-ordinate with gallantry pride exploration, Somewhere scholar's voice explosion Solicit grant for idle generation. Corruption! Corruption! Corruption! What is corruption? Working against the soul corruption, Earning money overdose corruption; Kissing beloved on road corruption Homosexuality in India corruption. Corruption! Corruption! Corruption! How to eliminate corruption? Agitation, law, dialect and compulsion. Could not minimize absolute tension. To eradicate this sensitive passion, Must regulate spiritual diversion.
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Jun 4, 2013
Jun 4, 2013 at 2:56 AM UTC
Corruption
Brighter than Rudolph's red nose, My nose, like a traffic light glows. Santa could hire me you know, As his coach man I'd love to go !! Traffic stops when I cross, Puzzled police are at a loss. "Oh, those signals", they say at last, By then I'm gone real fast !! Winter haunteth the place I live, Not a ghost. (Ghostbusters do forgive) Tissues like snow, dot the floor, What's in them, I don't adore. If only this was Charlie's Chocolate factory, Where snow resembled sugary gallantry !! Maybe Santa loved Winter no more, Instead it entered through my front door. Homeless Winter, thou gifted me cold, And cold, a runny nose. I'm grateful, for I am bold, And gifteth Winter, poetry and prose !!!
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Dec 15, 2017
Dec 15, 2017 at 11:57 AM UTC
A Christmas Cold
Gliding in air was an eerie delightful hue hanging high above violet and blue, for eons no one had knew, the peon pest probing around the howling zoo, rhyming and roaming hiding and hoping flighty the ronin ran, groping every moment he could come to as a token to his gallantry the guidance to his apathy decided to devise his only strife to live happily
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Sep 10, 2018
Sep 10, 2018 at 1:53 PM UTC
The ronin of sunflower fields
My auspicious and audacious assault augments the annoyance of aged accomplices. My bodacious broadside of boffolas berates and buffaloes bros beneficently. A classy crusade Clownishly chiseling and criticizing childishness. A devilish ********** of dillydallying dullards; devoutly denying dimwits the dulcet dream of defiance. Excessive, exuberant edification, ebulliently eliminating education-evictees. A fair-weather frolic in flippancy with furious fools floundering in flawed foppishness. Gregariously grating glum guys gleefully, growing grander garnishes of gripping gallantry gaily. Heckling hooligans highlights my heavenly humor. Irreverently irking irritable, iniquitous idiots in inestimably infuriating and incredible instances. A jolly, jocular **** joking with jerks. A kreiger kicking kleptomaniacs in the karyotype. (Cut me some slack, this is 'k', after all.) A ludicrous, laughing lambaste of lollygagging lunatics, loftily loosing luscious lunacy on lucky losers. A magnificent masterpiece of malfeasance, a monstrous, malevolent mission of massive misfortune for the minor minors missing no malicious missive. A noxious, narcissistic niggling of nitwits, niftily nixing the noisome naivete of niggardly nobs. An offhand, off-color outburst of outlandish observations to outclass the obnoxious overtures of obsequious offal. A pragmatic prediction of possible platitudes or platypi, a placid parley of pyrotechnic pleasantries provoking Pyrrhic protections by prurient prats. A quixotic quibble quarreling with a queer quarry. Ribald ribbing, ruining the robust reality of the repreachful, repugnant, and rapacious with risque ridiculousness. A silly, slighting slander of sluglike slavishness, succinctly sinking sloppy simpletons sourly. Tracing the titillating talent of towing tyranny to towering terrors to tactless, togless, terrapins of the times.
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Jan 7, 2012
Jan 7, 2012 at 11:25 PM UTC
Awesome Alliterations
My auspicious and audacious assault augments the annoyance of aged accomplices. My bodacious broadside of boffolas berates and buffaloes bros beneficently. A classy crusade Clownishly chiseling and criticizing childishness. A devilish ********** of dillydallying dullards; devoutly denying dimwits the dulcet dream of defiance. Excessive, exuberant edification, ebulliently eliminating education-evictees. A fair-weather frolic in flippancy with furious fools floundering in flawed foppishness. Gregariously grating glum guys gleefully, growing grander garnishes of gripping gallantry gaily. Heckling hooligans highlights my heavenly humor. Irreverently irking irritable, iniquitous idiots in inestimably infuriating and incredible instances. A jolly, jocular **** joking with jerks. A kreiger kicking kleptomaniacs in the karyotype. (Cut me some slack, this is 'k', after all.) A ludicrous, laughing lambaste of lollygagging lunatics, loftily loosing luscious lunacy on lucky losers. A magnificent masterpiece of malfeasance, a monstrous, malevolent mission of massive misfortune for the minor minors missing no malicious missive. A noxious, narcissistic niggling of nitwits, niftily nixing the noisome naivete of niggardly nobs. An offhand, off-color outburst of outlandish observations to outclass the obnoxious overtures of obsequious offal. A pragmatic prediction of possible platitudes or platypi, a placid parley of pyrotechnic pleasantries provoking Pyrrhic protections by prurient prats. A quixotic quibble quarreling with a queer quarry. Ribald ribbing, ruining the robust reality of the repreachful, repugnant, and rapacious with risque ridiculousness. A silly, slighting slander of sluglike slavishness, succinctly sinking sloppy simpletons sourly. Tracing the titillating talent of towing tyranny to towering terrors to tactless, togless, terrapins of the times.
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There was no dragon And there was no girl with hands bound with pearls, But… There was blood And there was mass ****** littered all over the land and rivers. There was no saint And there were no hymns or marching pipes led by earls, But… There were lies And there were bones inked to write and slaughter was delivered. There was no lance And there was no horse or swords drawn to help curvaceous girls, But… There was a red cross And there was blood smeared on a pure white flag which flapped and curled. There was no gallantry And there was no dignity or pride nor was there justice delivered, But… There was a pale man And he rode a pale horse and he rode from a land called Palestine.
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Apr 23, 2013
Apr 23, 2013 at 6:02 PM UTC
The Cross of St. George of the Crusades
Love is the greatest force of all mankind... of all cosmos, of all movement of all that is wild and deranged held safe in a locket, clandestine, casually singing reigning from clouds of rain sonnets of seismic sound sway trees encouraging sodded fields grow greener than yesterday yet sprightly and anew soon nudging the node of the naysayers neighing, bulging out their blue button ups cramping, beastly belly's brooding to feast on the blooming young, the callow of a courageous continuum trooping along gaily with gallantry on trails, heralding gnarled roots but this is rhythm and rhythm is rhyme and rhyme reconciles reasoning "i love you for no other reason but i love you" says the tales of two seeking singularity, soaking in the sauna of one, sovereign sun.
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Sep 12, 2018
Sep 12, 2018 at 6:24 PM UTC
A Sovereign Sun
I’d never noticed the Freckles On your Shoulders. But then again, You’d never noticed The scars. Specifically The ones On my chest, And if you had, I’d never Heard Anything about them, Or, “it.” It had been awhile since we’d Last crossed paths, Encounters always Ending in Collision, Connection And corrosion come the first Morning after; but welcomed. You looked good though, And that’s how it’d always Started, But beautiful nonetheless – A world-weathered skin In the form of a twilight tan, The vulnerable smile With a small curl displaying Aggressive sexuality, And a dress, your cloth, A critical juncture, Of both cinema and satori, A’flutter in the wind. “Gift-wraps,” aside, I’d always return to the Form and curve of “You.” Simply you The half I could see Leaving the other Somehow elusive side of You To my imagination and Memory Of prior gallantry. Unspoken words Pave paths between the Tables we now occupy. So to, Acts of predation await, Perched and ready for Gardens, Accepted, the resulted chaos. I wonder, “What’s she thinking?” As I capture a wink And steal the sunlight Bouncing of her Shoulder’s freckles. It’s an intoxication At its finest. Accordingly, I sip my Beer And in echoes mumble, “I want you, want you, Want you.” Luckily, You wanted me too.
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Aug 11, 2015
Aug 11, 2015 at 9:04 AM UTC
Freckles
It's made in me The way of me So loving & savory, What do I speak of? My dear instinctive bravery Insatiably A heart of gold engraved in thee, Solemnly a gift from God given gracefully. Questioned by many about my dashing courage Noble-minded behavior, Intrepidity Superman-like favor, Saving a life with intent & untapped wit Comforting to the mind So very major. Put my life on the line for someone in need Even for animals, treated, As loved ones indeed Deference Urbanity It sits well as my creed, So many think of me as crazy, somewhat insane For having such a desire of valiance within my brain, Why salt my game? Because I'm so in tact with life? The beauty it holds? Mettle with heartfelt kindness to my delight? I can't help it I must protect & serve, MINUS THE BADGE Pains me to see a damsel in distress No tender heart deserves. I know that every situation is not my problem Shouldn't concern me some would say, Like a man beating his wife while the kids cry & stray In daylight even Never could I look away, I'm sorry I feel I must jump in to save my quarry, Who knows I may be in over my head, But I can care less at times Must save the prey from the predator, can't consume of spoiled bread. Whether its a car speeding about to run over a baby Or a relentless fire in a building coursing to burn a lady, With my mind attentive, laced with uncontested audacity, Boldness Courtesy Reverence All out strong Tenacity, I'm here, Im here... Good guys are yet to be seen Daredevils that are truly serene, But no matter what I'm here, With my mind & Valor Have no fear A young soldier is near, At your service I'll be around to help Take a stand with me Let me lend a hand for thee With my beautiful, yet Ravishing Gallantry.... ©Michael P. Smith
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Jul 4, 2012
Jul 4, 2012 at 9:36 AM UTC
Ravishing Gallantry
It's made in me The way of me So loving & savory, What do I speak of? My dear instinctive bravery Insatiably A heart of gold engraved in thee, Solemnly a gift from God given gracefully. Questioned by many about my dashing courage Noble-minded behavior, Intrepidity Superman-like favor, Saving a life with intent & untapped wit Comforting to the mind So very major. Put my life on the line for someone in need Even for animals, treated, As loved ones indeed Deference Urbanity It sits well as my creed, So many think of me as crazy, somewhat insane For having such a desire of valiance within my brain, Why salt my game? Because I'm so in tact with life? The beauty it holds? Mettle with heartfelt kindness to my delight? I can't help it I must protect & serve, MINUS THE BADGE Pains me to see a damsel in distress No tender heart deserves. I know that every situation is not my problem Shouldn't concern me some would say, Like a man beating his wife while the kids cry & stray In daylight even Never could I look away, I'm sorry I feel I must jump in to save my quarry, Who knows I may be in over my head, But I can care less at times Must save the prey from the predator, can't consume of spoiled bread. Whether its a car speeding about to run over a baby Or a relentless fire in a building coursing to burn a lady, With my mind attentive, laced with uncontested audacity, Boldness Courtesy Reverence All out strong Tenacity, I'm here, Im here... Good guys are yet to be seen Daredevils that are truly serene, But no matter what I'm here, With my mind & Valor Have no fear A young soldier is near, At your service I'll be around to help Take a stand with me Let me lend a hand for thee With my beautiful, yet Ravishing Gallantry.... ©Michael P. Smith
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Acrid stenches of contrived action stain his sloppy, uneven speeches gallantry is unnerving, obnoxious to me, even in the grandest favors. I sniff with all my offended senses. To a bloodhound nose, it's cloying. He smells like he's trying too hard, trying too hard smells sour, biting. I prefer challenges from a cunning, a silver-tongued fox. Let me chase. Subtle while retaining the ability to remain brazen, aye, there's the rub. Chomping at the bit, the overeager and easily pleased are not my kind, the authentic and untamed always give me more rise than an easy bait.
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May 19, 2013
May 19, 2013 at 6:56 PM UTC
chasing
*Ragged cliffs loom o'er the shore- as waves punish the rocks below - "Deafening", is their roar*.......... *A fleece, a blanket, of mist...and fog, muffles the 'pleas' From the 'sailing ships'..... moored in the salty seas* *Out from the mist... alone.........she comes- "A battle waits.... to be won" says this maiden.....from Avalon* *With arms outspread-- and opened palms....... She 'chants'...for the sea to lie "still.... and calm"... says the maiden.......from Avalon* "*Oh God of Nature....of  all men - I beseech thee.......... To shield these men of  gallantry"..... 'Chants'...the maiden from Avalon* *As she speaks..... the waves subside.....silent, is their roar The solar orb....no longer hides.... As the brave doth come ashore*. *Is it magic, myth, or simply......lore? perhaps, a tale not told before- But....... when all was said, and done...... "Blessed be the maiden"*..... "From Avalon" r.riddle- 10-29-2016
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Oct 29, 2016
Oct 29, 2016 at 7:42 PM UTC
" Out From the Mist"
How can I ever explain it? Not without a full disclosure I will tell you every bit Your kindness to which I demure Soldiers fight their own private war Mine to protect the Hill Tribes Willing to suffer all the gore All credit to them I ascribe Upon arrival in Da Nang I gathered my field gear and rifle A mission with Colonel Vang Preparation seemed but a trifle My kind mountain Hmong Tribal ladies Give a great gift to me, your sons I will escort them through Hades I'll teach them to ****** with guns Wet their tongues in cobra's blood I have come to save you from doom The coming communist red flood Boys already made their own tomb We shall fly the flags of the Hmong We'll rally boys from the villes We must slaughter the Minh and Cong The Hmong will have their own Bastille I will take a dragon to wife Boys will nurture in her foul breath They will worship their ****** knife We'll dance the ritual of death I’m the lost soul forest monster Others have come before today They are pathetic impostors We will flow through the night to slay Other boys born beneath the palm They have come to steal your life's breath It's them that we target to bomb I'll walk among you as Macbeth My Duncan is among your kin Banquo will haunt me til I rot I will be fixed with mortal sin Unable to wash away the spot I will hide my hands from Odin A conundrum in which I'm caught Future will be among the Jinn My destiny from this foul plot Your sons buried in sacred ground They'll not be stained with my darkness Peace for them will be so profound How many thanks can I express Those boys in valor's selfless crown From gallantry, their future gone Sins I keep and can't beat down For many years, I must atone. I, far removed from battles roar Do fondly remember those boys Their smiles and laughter before Stand out among life's greatest joys No more the fierce warrior am I Just an old man with memories I am needing to just say goodbye And maybe, maybe my conscience appeases
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Mar 18, 2017
Mar 18, 2017 at 6:33 PM UTC
Warriors Lament
How can I ever explain it? Not without a full disclosure I will tell you every bit Your kindness to which I demure Soldiers fight their own private war Mine to protect the Hill Tribes Willing to suffer all the gore All credit to them I ascribe Upon arrival in Da Nang I gathered my field gear and rifle A mission with Colonel Vang Preparation seemed but a trifle My kind mountain Hmong Tribal ladies Give a great gift to me, your sons I will escort them through Hades I'll teach them to ****** with guns Wet their tongues in cobra's blood I have come to save you from doom The coming communist red flood Boys already made their own tomb We shall fly the flags of the Hmong We'll rally boys from the villes We must slaughter the Minh and Cong The Hmong will have their own Bastille I will take a dragon to wife Boys will nurture in her foul breath They will worship their ****** knife We'll dance the ritual of death I’m the lost soul forest monster Others have come before today They are pathetic impostors We will flow through the night to slay Other boys born beneath the palm They have come to steal your life's breath It's them that we target to bomb I'll walk among you as Macbeth My Duncan is among your kin Banquo will haunt me til I rot I will be fixed with mortal sin Unable to wash away the spot I will hide my hands from Odin A conundrum in which I'm caught Future will be among the Jinn My destiny from this foul plot Your sons buried in sacred ground They'll not be stained with my darkness Peace for them will be so profound How many thanks can I express Those boys in valor's selfless crown From gallantry, their future gone Sins I keep and can't beat down For many years, I must atone. I, far removed from battles roar Do fondly remember those boys Their smiles and laughter before Stand out among life's greatest joys No more the fierce warrior am I Just an old man with memories I am needing to just say goodbye And maybe, maybe my conscience appeases
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Lenore, as gentle as the wind, As light as a feather; I wonder where it was The breeze delivered her. I imagine her smile In the morning sun, and Her son, playing in the yard. I smile in reminiscence Whilst pondering This new shore I've happened upon; Guilty, come fear, A remorse blanketed echoes of Gallantry. The world would never let me go. She knew that when we’d sprout; The world would never let me go, “So go,” she’d whispered.
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Feb 23, 2016
Feb 23, 2016 at 10:11 PM UTC
Lenore and when the world began
Took the bus home. Paid my $2.50, no special discount. Spent my day selling my wares, But did not sell enough to Pay the daily rent, Hell, to even pay for lunch. Gave up my seat for sweet, Baby-child laughed at my Gallantry, I think, For his exclamations were Of the shrieking pleasurable variety. Saw Macbeth last night, In the end, he dies, Same as when I saw it Last year. Le plus ca change The Frenchies say, Wonder if they still wear berets And say "Le Weekend?" In the winter, The buses are overheated, So winter coats become furnaces. I am rendered, Ash and smoke. Nothing new there too. Missed my stop Writing this, Happened before, Hope it happens again. Came  home to the customary What's new, So I said Not too much But, Somebody decided that ole Poem I wrote two years on, Should be the Poem of the Day. That's sweet, my love , You surely will be Insufferably happy and Impossible to live with for at least the next five minutes. So take the trash out, Before we leave, Then pick a place to dine, For not a thing in the fridge to eat. So to the compactor, I strode, thinking Shakespeare Didn't have to do this, I'll bet, But started smiling, Ear to ear, A ***** eating Big ole Grinning, Nonetheless! Thinking, The question is, How does it feel, This poem of the day Accolade, The answer, of course! It feels, like, I am, I am just like {you, man}
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Nov 6, 2013
Nov 6, 2013 at 5:13 PM UTC
the question you'll ask yourself, sooner or later.
Girls and ladies dream Of and desire A knight in shining armour, Gallantry and bravery to Sweep them from their feet To a happily ever after, But take it from One who knows, No knight that ever fought For his lady Had her back, Has armour shining pure, It takes sacrifice and Mental melee - sometimes brutal To maintain love in this desperate War called life, And no man did a hard day's work Nor fought in war and Came away unscathed and undirtied, A true knight's armour, Though burnished as best may be And glittering in the sun Has dents and gouges absent In a woman's dreams, Every mistake every failure Shows in his history and Cannot be polished out But that he polishes what remains Is testament to a true heart, And a man worth keeping
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Dec 30, 2023
Dec 30, 2023 at 4:54 PM UTC
True Knight
Finally i'm free, finally i am Away from that cage,  far from that hell stage Been two months since I'd stopped chatting with them They've never ceased stalking me, talking to me But I fought them with gallantry The courage of not making a noise The bravery in silence Finally i'm free, finally i am Away from that cage, far from that hell stage Might be the last visit of my loved ones that affected me so much Gave me a true strength to overpower and block They've danced, sang, even performed a magic tricks But all are in vain, the coin was finally flipped Until totally no voice from them, no sightings at all Finally i'm free, finally i am Away from that cage, far from that hell stage It has been twenty minutes since we left the sanitarium Finally i am away, finally i am far "His situation is fifty-fifty" said the nurse that accompanied the body As i looked at him to my curiosity Oh God! It was my body in an ambulance... written: September 1, 2014 @ 9:16 PH standard time Mysterious Aries
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Sep 1, 2015
Sep 1, 2015 at 5:15 AM UTC
Schizophrenian Freedom
Gazing at the vibrant clouds in the ashen sky, It is not them that move, but I, For the breeze of Mother Nature is but a wafting breath, Imparted from her ***** To move the impartial inhabitants to harbor universal wisdom. Thus let rivalry arise between the jurors three; Amongst which Father time sets the sands free, Impartial to havoc of releasing ages and convicting generations, Set loose at his own hand, Greatly yearning for mankind to desire to understand. Hark and Herald, an Angel arrived on sullen black wings, To recluse man; further reprieve wrong doings, Slowly risen with the gallantry of gilded fervor and entitlement, Like Atlas bearing burdens on brazen back, Sentencing humanity to acquiesce that all is not bleak and black.
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Aug 18, 2011
Aug 18, 2011 at 12:45 AM UTC
Three Jurors
from October, 2016 Ragged cliffs loom o'er the shore- as waves punish the rocks below - "Deafening", is their roar.......... A fleece, a blanket, of mist...and fog, muffles the 'pleas' From the 'sailing ships'..... moored in the salty seas *Out from the mist... alone.........she comes- "A battle waits.... to be won" says this maiden.....from Avalon* With arms outspread-- and opened palms....... She 'chants'...for the sea to lie "still.... and calm"... says the maiden.......from Avalon *"Oh God of Nature....of  all men - I beseech thee.......... To shield these men of  gallantry"..... 'Chants'...the maiden from Avalon* As she speaks..... the waves subside.....silent, is their roar The solar orb....no longer hides.... As the brave doth come ashore. Is it magic, myth, or simply......lore? perhaps, a tale not told before- But....... when all was said, and done...... "Blessed be the maiden"..... "From Avalon" r.riddle- 10-29-2016
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Feb 3, 2017
Feb 3, 2017 at 4:08 AM UTC
" Out From the Mist"
Gallantry, the heart cannot entail, Obscene and crude, blood formed as hail, Ostentatiously coy, the maidens call, Dissecting my spirit, your eyes enthrall, Beloved your lips, I so long to kiss, Yielding hope, begin to reminisce, Enchanting laugh, music of Apollo, Jasmine scent, unknowingly hollow, Offering a goddess, pure gift of light Consuming my heart, with nothing but spite, Eyes of topaz, god’s gift to my world, Lust mistaken as love, mind unfurled, Youth is a curse, for a heart in distress, Never will i know, your lips to caress
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Dec 9, 2009
Dec 9, 2009 at 10:42 PM UTC
Meu Amor
Who will cherish me When withering autumn leaves Are stripped of their golden gallantry By the biting winter winds Writer and reader alike Chasing currents of contradictions Like our will to death, fighting for life Am I here at all if I am not here to stay Points of purpose, in shallow moments Ripped by tides and dragged away We mind the depths, so to never dig up our dead A fading remember when Time and tide, forever outpacing the lives of men Unearthed and submerged In the instant between The angel opening his eyes, and the tired who resign to dream
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Aug 9, 2021
Aug 9, 2021 at 9:50 PM UTC
Remember When
November of Sixty-five, at the X ray landing zone men of the seventh Calvary were outnumbered far from home.. The casualties were mounting, Charlie held the heights. Four massed assaults repulsed that day, Terror ruled the nights In the high grass and the heat they lay, the wounded men and dying. They thought their fate was set and sealed: No med-e vacs were flying. Through shot and shell, into that hell, two brave men came flying into the hot landing zone for the wounded men and dying. Thirteen trips in all they made to keep some hope alive. There are men alive today who, without them, would have died. Ed Freeman and Bruce Crandall flew where angels feared to tread. They bore the wounds of valor where others would have fled. His medal of Honor was bestowed for conspicuous gallantry. today we mourn, Ed Freeman’s gone and Freedom’s still not free. this poem is written in honor of Captain Ed "Too Tall" Freeman. the action for which he received the Congressional Medal of Honor was the battle of La Drang, Vietnam which is the core of the Mel Gibson film " We were soldiers" the action takes place on 11/14-15/65
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Dec 4, 2011
Dec 4, 2011 at 6:58 PM UTC
Too Tall
Ganjgal, September 8, 2009 They had a job to do that day in the Valley of Ganjgal. Afghani and Americans walked into a metal hail. An ambush had been laid for them as they approached the town Every light was darkened Taliban held the high ground. One squad was pinned Behind a wall and was taking Casualties. The gunny Sergeant for sure was dead and perhaps the other three. Corporal Meyer on the radio called for suppressive fire but was denied because brass feared to rouse the natives ire. With no air support available and the situation looking grim Corporal Meyer told his Sergeant   They should take the Humvee in. They drove into the ambush zone time and time again Engaging with the enemy and rescuing their friends. Corporal Meyer killed one enemy at close range with his M-4 He then engaged with a machine gun and killed or wounded several more. When air support, at last, arrived and held the foe at bay Corporal Meyer entered the killing zone to take the dead away. He came across four bodies that had been stripped of guns and gear All four had been shot at close range the  postmortems make that clear.. On his broad shoulders he bore a friend Who’d paid the price of war. He ran between the bullets until he had retrieved all four. Disregarding his own safety and heedless of his Shrapnel wound He displayed great personal bravery without which our cause is doomed. Corporal Meyer wears an honor now that few men living bear The Medal of Honor on his chest for conspicuous Gallantry there. He will tell you he’s no hero. He just had a job to do. A proud United States Marine to their motto ever true.
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Dec 16, 2011
Dec 16, 2011 at 11:42 PM UTC
Dakota Meyer, United States Marine
Ganjgal, September 8, 2009 They had a job to do that day in the Valley of Ganjgal. Afghani and Americans walked into a metal hail. An ambush had been laid for them as they approached the town Every light was darkened Taliban held the high ground. One squad was pinned Behind a wall and was taking Casualties. The gunny Sergeant for sure was dead and perhaps the other three. Corporal Meyer on the radio called for suppressive fire but was denied because brass feared to rouse the natives ire. With no air support available and the situation looking grim Corporal Meyer told his Sergeant   They should take the Humvee in. They drove into the ambush zone time and time again Engaging with the enemy and rescuing their friends. Corporal Meyer killed one enemy at close range with his M-4 He then engaged with a machine gun and killed or wounded several more. When air support, at last, arrived and held the foe at bay Corporal Meyer entered the killing zone to take the dead away. He came across four bodies that had been stripped of guns and gear All four had been shot at close range the  postmortems make that clear.. On his broad shoulders he bore a friend Who’d paid the price of war. He ran between the bullets until he had retrieved all four. Disregarding his own safety and heedless of his Shrapnel wound He displayed great personal bravery without which our cause is doomed. Corporal Meyer wears an honor now that few men living bear The Medal of Honor on his chest for conspicuous Gallantry there. He will tell you he’s no hero. He just had a job to do. A proud United States Marine to their motto ever true.
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He was born of the grandiosity, The pride of wolves, The bravery of lions, The wit of ravens; He was born of a beast. He had the might of the strongest, He triumphed every strife. He always had the victory, Of the pleasures of life, He was born of a beast, indeed; Yet unlike the beasts akin; He was not of ferocity, A strange affliction, received; Bravery of lions, he has, indeed, Yet, he struggles with a foe. The foe gave the toughest skirmish he had, Sadly, he failed to vanquish it: The sullen darkness, the specter, The mist that did nothing but whisper; Whisper tragedies over naught. It filled him with guilt, It filled him with fear; It made the Beast weary, To conceal the scars he sought in battle; A battle far too explicit. He, the beast, ventured endlessly, Trying to hide his curse. He tried to release himself from everyone; His kinship, his gallantry, His kin. Then in his yonder, he met a wisp; Lively, bright, pompous. The wisp accompanied him in his bouts: The bouts that hid his truths, The bouts that pushed him away from his realities. Alas, the Specter he encounters once more. Again, it whispers his fears. Amidst the pain he listens to, a faint voice enlightens him; The wisp speaks his bravery; The wisp speaks acceptance. His eyes were unclouded, It glowed like never before. He had done something he thought he would've never done: Vanquish the evil that haunts him; Vanquish the Specter of Censures. A day arose again. He, the Beast awoke, listening to the hymn of the wisp; It spoke that his battle was not of the specter's, That his battle was within the Beast's self, And with it, he slumbers, edified. He awakens once again, Realizing the truth that he is: A flamboyant Faun, Frolicking in the meadowy grasslands, Basking the Sun's warmth. Yet realizing this, he wears his mane once more, As he is greeted again by his kin; He fears not that hisself be lost; He fears that his all would be lost, When they are darted by his Truth. He, the Beast still walks upon his feet, He still has the grandiosity of his birth, Yet he forcefully clouds himself in lies, To hide the reality he only can accept; The Faun, hiding in the beast's mane.
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Apr 18, 2016
Apr 18, 2016 at 10:44 AM UTC
The Faun Hiding in the Beast's Mane
He was born of the grandiosity, The pride of wolves, The bravery of lions, The wit of ravens; He was born of a beast. He had the might of the strongest, He triumphed every strife. He always had the victory, Of the pleasures of life, He was born of a beast, indeed; Yet unlike the beasts akin; He was not of ferocity, A strange affliction, received; Bravery of lions, he has, indeed, Yet, he struggles with a foe. The foe gave the toughest skirmish he had, Sadly, he failed to vanquish it: The sullen darkness, the specter, The mist that did nothing but whisper; Whisper tragedies over naught. It filled him with guilt, It filled him with fear; It made the Beast weary, To conceal the scars he sought in battle; A battle far too explicit. He, the beast, ventured endlessly, Trying to hide his curse. He tried to release himself from everyone; His kinship, his gallantry, His kin. Then in his yonder, he met a wisp; Lively, bright, pompous. The wisp accompanied him in his bouts: The bouts that hid his truths, The bouts that pushed him away from his realities. Alas, the Specter he encounters once more. Again, it whispers his fears. Amidst the pain he listens to, a faint voice enlightens him; The wisp speaks his bravery; The wisp speaks acceptance. His eyes were unclouded, It glowed like never before. He had done something he thought he would've never done: Vanquish the evil that haunts him; Vanquish the Specter of Censures. A day arose again. He, the Beast awoke, listening to the hymn of the wisp; It spoke that his battle was not of the specter's, That his battle was within the Beast's self, And with it, he slumbers, edified. He awakens once again, Realizing the truth that he is: A flamboyant Faun, Frolicking in the meadowy grasslands, Basking the Sun's warmth. Yet realizing this, he wears his mane once more, As he is greeted again by his kin; He fears not that hisself be lost; He fears that his all would be lost, When they are darted by his Truth. He, the Beast still walks upon his feet, He still has the grandiosity of his birth, Yet he forcefully clouds himself in lies, To hide the reality he only can accept; The Faun, hiding in the beast's mane.
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Gallantry badge stitched to rotting cloth as the skin sinks and the bones fade and the love made is left to reek the bed where sexless wife and lonely daughter    Lay their head's arrest. In due time they both tan, sag and crackle Under weight of the sun. That dizzy cyclops that roped forth homecoming boats and ships stands five years from being defunct; rusted to the hue of a coppice and hardly the attraction it once was But oh well— sighs the sailor, too old and bankrupt to care for approaching poverty— the money has been made and my life spent For others (his Sister, his Niece, his Brother) They lack the ability to sigh; the closest they get is the occasional stormy wind that cracks the surface, blows through their teeth resembling a crooked lullaby, Revolves the bullet lodged in their skull; O occasional stormy rain that beshrews the water clogging their lungs and, in due time, The leaking muck that’ll pluck and sharply snap inward the casketwood-- directly against the bullet gathhering mold in their heart-- Their souls have been spent. One less soldier wouldn't have changed a thing (The result was a certainty propagated    as a contingency) And if G-d bare'd witness his eyes no longer sting,   His grievances had and his puppets dead Following a suffering in his name. If Thy Kingdom holds true They bare witness now to the lighthouse In it's chipping hue, it's trivial dock and visitor Silhouettes— All held in place and burning; They disfigure Under weight of the sun.
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Aug 12, 2019
Aug 12, 2019 at 2:58 PM UTC
Victims upon The Beach
Gallantry badge stitched to rotting cloth as the skin sinks and the bones fade and the love made is left to reek the bed where sexless wife and lonely daughter    Lay their head's arrest. In due time they both tan, sag and crackle Under weight of the sun. That dizzy cyclops that roped forth homecoming boats and ships stands five years from being defunct; rusted to the hue of a coppice and hardly the attraction it once was But oh well— sighs the sailor, too old and bankrupt to care for approaching poverty— the money has been made and my life spent For others (his Sister, his Niece, his Brother) They lack the ability to sigh; the closest they get is the occasional stormy wind that cracks the surface, blows through their teeth resembling a crooked lullaby, Revolves the bullet lodged in their skull; O occasional stormy rain that beshrews the water clogging their lungs and, in due time, The leaking muck that’ll pluck and sharply snap inward the casketwood-- directly against the bullet gathhering mold in their heart-- Their souls have been spent. One less soldier wouldn't have changed a thing (The result was a certainty propagated    as a contingency) And if G-d bare'd witness his eyes no longer sting,   His grievances had and his puppets dead Following a suffering in his name. If Thy Kingdom holds true They bare witness now to the lighthouse In it's chipping hue, it's trivial dock and visitor Silhouettes— All held in place and burning; They disfigure Under weight of the sun.
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Anticipation is like a former actress who eagerly awaits a future prospect, where delicate wallflowers hang with certain fortitude. Similarly, our medieval ancestors played the harpsichord, whilst later English Baroque flaunted her chauvinistic flamboyance to those who fluttered their eyelashes in the name of socio-economic harlotry. I am pleased to meet your acquaintance, my friend of gallantry. However, the roots of Portugese expression are conveyed in the aristocracy of our heritage. As purity is the laughing stock of assumed independence, and pride is buried in lascivious presumption, we must remember that the classical piano shares an Arabesque flavour which stands in juxtaposition to our Saxony.
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Jan 22, 2015
Jan 22, 2015 at 10:35 PM UTC
The Period
And t'is is truthfully why I am here, my love: I belong to thee, sacredly, entirely, and soulfully to thee-yes, only to thee! My eyes brighten at every sight of thee, my mind delights at the thoughts of thee, my pulse fastens at the views of thee, my blood curdles at the scent of thee, my veins rustle at the gaze of thee-and hark! Hark now, dearest-how my heart leaps, sheepishly yet excitedly-when'ver I recall thee! Ah, and how t'is feeling trembles and fidgets as always, as thou stareth back-gladly and with a smile so handsome yet animated and playful- sweeping straightly back into my soul. Like t'ose stupefying, sentient glazes of summers- blowing silently with the rustic gallantry of t'eir ruddy oaks, my heart is elevated with defiant, but affectionate branches of terrific, terrific love for thee! Oh! And t'ese thou but needst to know- t'at both my virtuous-and vicious lusts-crave only thee, as well as how my pure joys rely on thee! As despairingly as how my soul was born for thee, my life was crafted for thee, my hands were paired with thee, and thus so graciously are my young feet- my toes, my ribs, my lungs, and the very limbs in which my spines might dwell, and be celebrated by thy gentle, manly breath. Oh, how thou, my Western prince-so delicate and blessed with all the might of my very being-thou hath, my love, since the very first been my gem, my bronze, my silver, my gold, my charm, my pearl, my diamond, my light, my fire, my treasure, and my lifelong dreams-as thou shalt always be! And so art thou the perfect accord to comply with all such of my mine; as thou art but the freshest bloom of my ****** years, as innocent as t'is nature's peaceful labyrinths- but youthful and starry like the fruit of my most curious- yet ardently succulent imagination. And how I am so devoted to thee, my love! Just like the stars are to the moon above.
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Mar 2, 2013
Mar 2, 2013 at 3:34 PM UTC
For Him
And t'is is truthfully why I am here, my love: I belong to thee, sacredly, entirely, and soulfully to thee-yes, only to thee! My eyes brighten at every sight of thee, my mind delights at the thoughts of thee, my pulse fastens at the views of thee, my blood curdles at the scent of thee, my veins rustle at the gaze of thee-and hark! Hark now, dearest-how my heart leaps, sheepishly yet excitedly-when'ver I recall thee! Ah, and how t'is feeling trembles and fidgets as always, as thou stareth back-gladly and with a smile so handsome yet animated and playful- sweeping straightly back into my soul. Like t'ose stupefying, sentient glazes of summers- blowing silently with the rustic gallantry of t'eir ruddy oaks, my heart is elevated with defiant, but affectionate branches of terrific, terrific love for thee! Oh! And t'ese thou but needst to know- t'at both my virtuous-and vicious lusts-crave only thee, as well as how my pure joys rely on thee! As despairingly as how my soul was born for thee, my life was crafted for thee, my hands were paired with thee, and thus so graciously are my young feet- my toes, my ribs, my lungs, and the very limbs in which my spines might dwell, and be celebrated by thy gentle, manly breath. Oh, how thou, my Western prince-so delicate and blessed with all the might of my very being-thou hath, my love, since the very first been my gem, my bronze, my silver, my gold, my charm, my pearl, my diamond, my light, my fire, my treasure, and my lifelong dreams-as thou shalt always be! And so art thou the perfect accord to comply with all such of my mine; as thou art but the freshest bloom of my ****** years, as innocent as t'is nature's peaceful labyrinths- but youthful and starry like the fruit of my most curious- yet ardently succulent imagination. And how I am so devoted to thee, my love! Just like the stars are to the moon above.
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