Angels High



16/09/2012

It was so warm and sunny
Not a cloud was in the sky
Whilst all around was quiet
Except spitfires at angels high

You could hear the engines rumble
As vapour trails they left behind
Each one of these brave pilots
Not sure if today they'd die

Swooping down on bombers
They let their bullets fly
And I just stood and watched em
Having dogfights in the sky

The bombers had an escort
Who were following close behind
Their job to stop our brave boys
From killing those from the Rhine

Each was flown by young men
Wishing to live another day
Duty to King and England
Or from Adolf they didn't sway

I'd watched this scene so many times
And i had seen so many die
Yet today we were victorious
Thanks to spitfires from angels high
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Submitted on December 12, 2015

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXA XBXA XAXA XBXX XCXC XAXA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 706
Words 139
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

Mark Nadin (The Deal Poet)

Mark Nadin has lived in Deal since his birth in 1962. Deal is a coastal town in the South East Corner of Englan on the Kent Coast Mark spent a lot of his childhood on the beach and on a farm where his love with nature began Deal was the home of the Roysl Marines School of Music and as a child he wanted to join the military but due to chronic asthma this never happened His love of the coast and the military come through in many of his poems that he has written since his teenage years, however he only started keeping the in 2011 after his marriage broke up He used his poetry as a way of expressing himself and also as a means of therapy more…

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