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Poem Details | by
Timothy Emmons |
Categories:
bereavement, soldier, veterans day,
I lay here today a soldier
I know some don't understand
I will try to explain
So maybe you can
I served my country
For many a year
I retired long ago
The soldier still here
I put on my uniform
I wore it to foreign lands
The soldier I was
Is still in the man
I have been a husband, father, and friend
To some of you here
But I've been a soldier all along
Even after so many a year
My final salute
I render today
I'm still a soldier
I'm just on my way
Poem Details | by
Jen Franks |
Categories:
beauty, celebration, city, community, courage, culture, devotion, freedom, grave, identity, inspiration, inspirational, life, memory, nature, patriotic, people, political, power, september, symbolism, tribute, urban, veterans day, war, wisdom,
Temperature dip
urban leaves turned
Autumn, sniffing around
for a place to settle
no Farmer's Market
in San Francisco today.
Poem Details | by
Anna-Marie Docherty |
Categories:
conflict, death, dedication, grave, memorial day, military, veterans day,
Front-line in depth of mortar
Whistling shells and screams of torture
Blood clott gurgles death bell tolls
Hell of pain in body enthralls
Danger rings apprehension stalls
Poem Details | by
Johnny Martinez |
Categories:
america, courage, death, dedication, freedom, heartbreak, hero, memorial day, soldier, tribute, veterans day, war,
Upon the deadly battlefield
Where honor's won and death is sealed
Brave soldiers stand their ground
Where all that counts, can there be found
Disciplined soldiers, fearless men
Never again to rise and fight again;
They willingly gave their lives
Tis’ there blood’s megre sacrifice!
From the cries of fallen soldiers, bleedin’
Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!
Poem Details | by
Stephanie Weeks |
Categories:
christian, courage, death, memorial day, veterans day,
Remember those who died for us,
Remember nine-eleven,
They left their families to save us,
They died and went to heaven.
Remember the twin towers,
They once were there but now are gone,
Remember those who went to work,
Who never came home.
Remember the God who gave us life,
Who can save us from death,
Remember He’ll never leave our side,
In sickness and in health.
They left their family to save us,
They died and went to Heaven,
Remember those who died for us,
Remember nine-eleven.
Poem Details | by
John Paluszek |
Categories:
death, family, goodbye, grief, loss, love, memorial day, memory, miss you, nostalgia, pain, soldier, sorrow, veterans day, war, child,
Running, after more than you, can hold.
Taking, someone else’s love, and leaving.
Children are fearful of what they’re told.
Can’t you see I’m the one who’s freezing?
I was just a child with a trinket
Never knowing that it’d be, more to me
When you were gone to, too far, from me.
Steady with your hands close to my heart
Never letting our world’s tear us apart
I know, your icicles
I miss the beaches that we played on
You missed the child in your own eyes
Now you’re gone,
But I’m still not here.
Why can’t you wake up
I’m not ready
Please, just take your time, don’t leave now
I can’t fight this world alone.
Poem Details | by
Janis Thompson |
Categories:
death, military, soldier, veterans day,
The Wall - Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Here is the silence of death.
Two acres of cherished names, 1959 to 1975,
Moore, Johnson, Lopez, Jones……
stare back at your reflection from glossy, mirrored granite.
Screams are quiet now as fingers touch lost lives.
10/28/16
Poem Details | by
Carrie White |
Categories:
death, god, goodbye, peace, veterans day, war,
If you care
Nothing changes
When God takes
you for a walk
The fallen stay
on the battlefield
Then a stranger
holds your hand
And says "If you
want peace, prepare
for war"
Behind the curtain
Final moments
& a fatal goodbye
Another poem inspired by the new poems page. Written with titles from other poems. This is for Veterans Day.
Poem Details | by
Susan Gentry |
Categories:
absence, dark, death, heartbroken, i miss you, loss, memory, veterans day,
Along the edge of a thought when I awaken, or
In memories, the moment I realize there are no more
Together since birth... separated by death
All that remains is a fragment of life...
Unaffected by your absence.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Written 2-25-2016
For 'Fragment of Life' Contest sponsored by Broken Wing
Fourth Place
For 'CONTEST NO 420, ANY FORM OR NONE, ANY THEME, UP TO A MAX OF 20 LINES'
Sponsored by Brian Strand
Fifth Place
Poem Details | by
jeffery scott |
Categories:
death, men, pain, strength, veterans day, violence, war,
i wittnessed a war just yesterday,
being the reason for much dismay,
i'm sorry for all the death and blood,
and all the soldiers in the mud,
i wish i could stop it just can't be done,
i'll need everybody including a nun,
i'll need jesus to forgive our sins,
that knock us down like bowling pins,
i'll need everybody to read this poem,
in hopes that all the soldiers get back home.
Poem Details | by
Albert Powers |
Categories:
veterans day,
DA NANG, 1968: THE DANCE OF DEATH
That night I watched the muted flashes
Reflected off low somber clouds
And heard the muted rumble
Of distant artillery
As if a storm were approaching.
And I knew that somewhere
In the jungled hills out there
Uniformed figures flailed the air
In grotesque dances of death
Engulfed by flames
Shredded by shrapnel.
While I, weary beyond caring
Thought only of blessed sleep
Perhaps tomorrow or the days after that
I too would dance the dance of death
And then could rest forever.
Poem Details | by
James Horn |
Categories:
tribute, veterans day,
Dad Did Die
Why was it really meant to be?
Dad did die serving his country
Me and my family are left alone
Each day when the sun had shone.
I am still so lonely each night
And sad tears off have to fight
Never receiving a one last kiss;
Him forever will always miss.
It is now another Veterans Day again;
My dad was one of many mighty men
Who for country had given his all
And for him one day God did call.
James Serious Mysterious Horn
Bolivia, NC Name of Father
Arthur Frederick Horn, CPO, AOC, USN
USS Aircraft Carrier Intrepid CVA-11
Killed on August 8th, 1956
Poem Details | by
Dominic Wiebersch |
Categories:
death, earth, flying, grief, soldier, veterans day, violence,
A Cognitive Dissonance
We love the blossoms beauty
We ask only for the beauty to grow.
Yet we war and destroy the blossoms
More surely than the snow.
We war and claim to love the earth
We war and poison the dirt
That produces the withered blossom
That produces the wilted blossom
We listen to the music to lighten our hearts
Then we go to war and destroy our ears
So we can n o longer hear the music start
Wee war forever and ever for years
Dominic James Wiebersch.
Poem Details | by
dewayne coleman |
Categories:
america, dark, death, dedication, military, political, veterans day,
This is my declaration,
This is where I take my stand,
A Citizen, a Veteran ,A Grown *** Man
The things I see daily
Came as a total surprise,
A President with no Integrity,
Everyday spouting new LIES,
A Congress that should balance,
Everyday closes its eyes,
A Congress that should check ,
Everyday tells me pigs fly,
If I cant trust those that lead,
Then what options are left,
TOTAL complete ANARCHY,
MAY My Strength be My WEALTH.
May the training I was provided,
See me through the coming storm,
May the blood of my former leaders
keep Me ETERNALLY WARM.
Poem Details | by
JW Nugent |
Categories:
angst, bereavement, dark, death, destiny, devotion, history, march, memorial, memorial day, military, soldier, sorrow, veterans day, war,
ESSAY ON DRUMS
The drum sounds slowly its cadence
the beat, beat, beat marks a march
and through the air reverberates.
The tramp of a company at quick time,
arms pumping with machine precision,
a rigid jerky movement of elbows.
The thump of rotating Huey blades
as they back stroke the air;
gingerly alighting on a hot LZ.
The staccato stutter of rifle fire
indiscriminately searching the earth
laughingly playing hard games of tag.
The grieving hearts at graveside
waiting the echoing bugle call
while the flag is ritually folded.
Sound slowly this cadence
for the eons of history
the drums of war reverberate.
Poem Details | by
victor nwakanma |
Categories:
death of a friend, earth, vanity, veterans day, words,
Beside marble fancied grave stones
You waste your time
Snoring on your bed was the best usage
Rather than for charity you spend on flowers
To lavish on empty graves
Soliloquizing, longing to be heard or felt
Kneeling before nothing, shedding tears
Oh so unfortunate it is all vanity
How can you be so fooled? Regarding your stature
If the dead can hear, why bury them
Why do they lay still, could they be acting?
Dead memories are imaginary, not real, so can’t be cherished
Stand up and go home
Their you’ll find bunches of living memories
you wont have to cry but smile.
Poem Details | by
Rhoda Tripp |
Categories:
death, military, nostalgia, veterans day,
As a child he played with an Erector set.
Career choice, military cadet.
Mom tried with all her powers.
"Come home. Build towers."
On the phone,
Hours.
At gravestone,
Tears like rain showers.
The war was Eisenhower's.
One thing his mom will never forget;
As a child he played with an Erector set.
11/17/18
Poem Details | by
John Conde |
Categories:
conflict, death, evil, fear, usa, veterans day, war,
In times of a war
When death is
Knocking at your door
And people get desperate
It's always the poor
That need the most protection
But once the bodies hit the floor
Their safety gets neglected
Poem Details | by
Esha Sharan |
Categories:
courage, death, poetry, veterans day, war,
No dulcet it was
cries of peace amidst gunfire
shells and smoke lingered.