Death Anthem Poems

Ukranian National Anthem

ENGLISH TRANSLATION

1. Ukraine is not yet dead,
nor its glory and freedom,
Luck will still smile on us,
young brothers.
Our enemies will vanish,
as the dew does...

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Today is another day
We match
Like every other day
In fight for our lives.
We prayed and sang songs
Chant our anthem
#EndSars
And say no to other forms of sars
Never...

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Oh say can you see
By the dawn's early light
The bags in my eyes
For I can't sleep through the night
I've been working to death 
And I...

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Last Anthem
by Michael R. Burch

for victims of the coronavirus

Where you have gone are the shadows falling...
does memory pale
like a fossil in shale
...do you not hear...

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The tides will ebb.
The moon will go.
This culture is not ours forever.

"The wind will cease to blow"
The mountain shall come low
And these vacations sure, will...

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Lift ev'ry voice and cry
While all our children die
Raise up the deaf'ning sigh of misery
Let all the people hear
With ever-sharpened ear
How we have lost our...

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How? -- Pow
When? -- Then
Where? -- There
  Why? -- Die
  Who? -- You...

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a whore’s anthem:


“it was none of your business!”
“we weren’t together!”
“you’re not my dad!”
“you’re not my boss!”
“you’re a bitc?!”
“I pay my bills!”
“it’s my house!”
“I don’t need...

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I hear the captain’s shouted battle cries
on the bellow and stalked battlefield
But nether faith or death I'll yield
While for the dead I sympathize.

I hear faint...

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Thou, O king, hast made a decree, 
that every man that shall hear the
sound of the cornet, flute, harp,
sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, 
and all kinds...

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A gentle breath
A swirl of the wind
A hymm
Passed through time
Stirring
Guiding memories
To the front
of my mind
Crunching leaves
Each step
A step closer
To the cliff
Overlooking 
Jagged rocks
And volatile...

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Anger in hate,
My beautiful taste.
Alone in me i await,
My only resounding fate.

Knives and bloods,
Clashing in swords.
Retiring sounds of 
death,
Imagery of a red earth.

Flights in pain,
One...

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NATIONAL ANTHEM

“O‘er the land of the free and the home of the brave”
Written by Francis Scott Key, 1814 Maryland Lawyer.  Adopted by Congress as...

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Tears to stars
and fears repressed
golden night of lovers far-

Life to death and born of rain
storms wild beget the pain
wilderness dreams of raging sea
ever near a...

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Tears to stars
and fears repressed
golden night of lovers far-

Life to death and born of rain
storms wild beget the pain
wilderness dreams of raging sea
ever near a...

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