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Tail Gunner
Contributed by
twinkletoes
on
Monday, 1st March 2004 @ 10:00:13 PM in AEST
Topic:
war
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My first night out in the lonely back seat
Ground disappears from under my feet
Watching for enemy all night all shift
I am the tail gunner I protect our ship.
Rotate the turret starboard and port
Check for exhaust flames none to report
Blackness is all that I wish to see
I know tonight it will never be.
Wind whistles through my bubble in flight
Mind numbing cold but still eager to fight
An enemy stalks just out of my range
Come closer, come closer to your final exchange.
He senses my trap and gives up the chase
This foe has no need to act in flash haste
He will again stalk these skies tonight
A tail gunner like me might fall in his sight.
Hours and hours searching the black
Occasionally buffeted by lights and by flak
I see our load drop returning the mail
Just one of the lurks of this job on the tail.
We send fear and death to the earth below
Can’t hear, don’t care, to hell they can go
Loosen stiff limbs a *glimpse* round the sky
Yawn, stretch, ***forget***…my time to die.
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twinkletoes
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2004-03-01 22:00:13]
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Re: Tail Gunner
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by Merry on
Monday, 1st March 2004 @ 10:08:27 PM AEST
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A most excellent write - on a subject one doesn't often hear about these days. My father-in-law was a tail gunner in the Pacific during WW II.
I really enjoyed ready your poem
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Re: Tail Gunner
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by kidpoet_213 on
Tuesday, 2nd March 2004 @ 12:08:23 AM AEST
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I agree with Merry... It a subjest that u don't often hear about these days. My sister's father- in- law was also a tail gunner in the Pacific during WWII. Our father was an airplane mechanic during the war. Stationed here in the states worked mostly on the A- 20. He enjoyed reading ur poem as well. Thank u.
~Donna~ |
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Re: Tail Gunner
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by Rakerman1999 on
Wednesday, 3rd March 2004 @ 12:09:32 AM AEST
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A well written tribute to men of courage and honor.
Very well done
Larry |
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Re: Tail Gunner
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by Former_Member on
Wednesday, 10th March 2004 @ 06:03:34 PM AEST
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woo hoo!! you know how to keep 'em moving i love war poetry (Brooke in particular) even had a go myself.
I take my hat of to you for this one fantastico!
wildejohnny |
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Re: Tail Gunner
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by felicitous on
Tuesday, 28th March 2006 @ 08:01:24 AM AEST
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| This is a great poem. Not so deep that I need to sit and sigh for half an hour to understand it, but still meaningful. Good work ay. |
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