Army officers had to write haikus about Pacific theater of World War II during a leadership course “Within the Context, Joint Force Capabilities, At Decisive Points” — just one of the haikus written by Army officers during the Advanced Military Studies program.

Battlefield poets:
"Be brief, be bright, and be gone."
Points of decision.

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#haiku #fobhaiku #warpoetry #warpoet

haiku is presented on a photo of two deployed U.S. airmen attempting to clear the snow off the tarmac, using only light snow shovels. They are not wearing coats or gloves. In the background, an A-10 "Thunderbolt II" jet is parked.

Sergeant major says
winter gear not authorized.
Snow falls on Bagram.

#warpoetry #fobhaiku

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Picture of the author in front of the Hokusai touring exhibit, which was presented recently at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo. The author appears from the eyes up, similar to the notorious "Kilroy was here" cartoon. Around the words "Hokusai" (b. 1760-d. 1849), parts of the artist's print "Great Wave at Kanagawa" appears. The print is one of the artist's series, "36 views of Mount Fuji."

1.
catching a great wave
the view from Kansas City
Kilroy Hokusai

2.
scrolling past pages
poems sold as souvenirs
the eternal grind

#haiku #fobhaiku #kilroywashere

Image humorously depicts a "poet" wielding a quill pen looking intensely at the viewer, superimposed on an image of a U.S. Army "Black Hawk" helicopter making a dusty desert landing. The image is headlined: "How to Be a War Poet: A 12-part series about going to war using your words."

Part 8: “In Flanders Fields ... War Poems on the Ground” www.fobhaiku.com/2024/11/how-...

“Each of these poems is about remembrance. Each, however, offers a slightly different take on what is to be remembered, and what is to be done in present day.”
#warpoetry #WarLiterature #militarylife #fobhaiku

poem from www.FOBhaiku.com's "So Frag & So Bold" reads: "You don’t have to make everything a poem, she said. Or about being a Veteran." Book cover image of "So Frag & So Bold" is a red grenade that morphs into the anatomical shape of a human heart

Me: "'Veteran' is a must-have keyword for my books' metadata."

Also me:

"You don’t have to make everything
a poem, she said.

Or about
being a Veteran."

(from #SoFrag #FOBhaiku: amzn.to/3bzW0Bu )

"Hot Haiku Summer"?!
I don't know about you but
I need this T-shirt

#haiku #FOBhaiku

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Memorial Day haiku No. 1 from Randy "Sherpa" Brown's collection "Welcome to FOB Haiku."

Young soldier salutes
a carved stone that remembers
his sergeant father.

#FOBhaiku #MemorialDay