Best Arlington Poems

A Little Hill in Arlington

There’s a little hill in Arlington
Where no bodies are interred
Yet crosses dot the hillside
And Taps are sometimes heard

Unlike the Unknown Soldier
With “unknowns” in the ground
This little hill in Arlington
Is for soldiers never found

I grew up without a father
He was gone when...

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Row by row for miles it seems
   perfectly aligned, the white stones rise
Stoic symbols of brave men and women
   a sight that brings tears to our eyes

In irony, a bald eagle rests
   atop a single grave marker
He seems to...

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Spread out below the home of Custis-Lee
Its rolling hills of hallowed heroes flow
In dark times there’s no better place to be
As sunrise sets the ashen stones aglow
And whether at the flame or at the tomb
Of those of promise shrouded young with death
There echoes in my...

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ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
by
Robert E. Welch, Sr.
May 18, 2016

The Honor Guard goes slowly by
As another’s laid to rest.
The bugle’s call hangs in the sky
Farewell to America’s best.

Look upon this solemn sight
Beneath the clear blue sky.
Markers of the purest white,
In silent rows they lie.
 
A gentle breeze...

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Six Flags Over Texas has been America's favorite theme park since 1961. It was developed
in Arlington, Texas. This theme park is so great, so awesome, it's like going to the Walt
Disney Resort in Orlando Florida. It's got a lot of rides, like, the Texas Giant,...

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A wreath is laid upon each soldier's grave
Christmas time at Arlington
A tribute to the brave


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Arlington

Row upon row
as if grown from the green carpet
they stand starkly white at attention.
Mute sentinels in the drenching sunlight.

Although rooted and still,
in martial regiments, they march endlessly
to the joining of blue sky and green grass carpet.

Those who come here
find the etched places, the names;
the beginnings...

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—Memorial Day Elegy—

The grave site
where the men and women of patriotic spirit fought bravely 
in the battlefield and fell for glory of the nation, 
abandoned everything that they have, buried 
at an age that is too young to die lie as headstones.

No matter with how...

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Beneath the rows of crosses
In Arlington’s hallowed ground
And under little white stones
Lie heroes safe and sound
As far as the eye can see
Amid the towering trees
Tiny flags fly proudly
Swaying softly in the breeze

Even when storm clouds gather
The sound of taps rings true
With a twenty one gun...

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Above the clouds in many splendored hues of blue and white
    This view beheld by an honored and rarest few

A nations treasure lies below in marble and in green
    Yet no dome or obelisk could ever be this hallowed

Like...

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An army in green
fields,
ever vigilant, ever
silent, ever still.
Their honor ever
their shields,
falter, they never
will.

They've fought their
fight,
served how and when
they were needed.
They've earned their
reprieve from the
harsh, glaring
light,
but their post,
after all this time,
they still haven't
ceded.

Stones, shaped to
stand and dressed in
white,
mark where they lie,
mute through the
years.
Not voiceless,
though, for there
are...

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Arlington Tombstone

The dash in the middle, the length of a life
No mention of children, no mention of wife
No mention of war, no mention of peace
Just the day that life started, the day that it ceased
The symbols and words etched there on the stone
Are all that...

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What's so great about Arlington, Texas, is that of it's suburban community. It's got
everything one person can ask for: a built-in movie theater at the Parks Mall, an awesome
shopping center, better homes, and, at long last, an NFL stadium. If by "NFL stadium," I'm
talking about...

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With the Christmas season upon us, I wanted to share as many of my Christmas themed poems as I could this month.  Hope you all enjoy reading them as much as I did writing them.

Arlington Christmas

They stand there in ranks
Straight up and tall
Just like...

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Beneath this green and grassy field
Whence ghosts of heroes past doth shield;
Lie noble relics of flesh and bone,
To each bequeathed a marble stone.
And as you walk amongst  the rows
May you learn what each one here knows;
O that freedom should not be lost,
All who lie...

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