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Best Commemoration Poems

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A Commemoration For Sunshine Smile
I have been reading her poetry for so many years that I lose count 
She is a Norwegian woman with a great capacity for great...

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Categories: commemoration, appreciation, feelings, friendship,
Form: Rhyme



Malkavian the Second
The constant assault of the silence on his senses is intense 
Hands clenched in fist he wished for noise and bliss
Buddy stopped talking and drinking...

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Categories: commemoration, dark, drug,
Form: Alliteration
Before Chanukah
The winter season brings in 
the festival of light
   in its wake
The battle which took place over a millennium ago 
  Still...

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Categories: commemoration, holiday,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Alive and With Medals
He stared at his war medals;
As bright as when first minted,
His own lustre long since tarnished;
Only tear-filled eyes now glinted!

He belonged to a generation
That sacrificed...

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Categories: commemoration, conflict, memorial day, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pure Delight
Like life, 
The seasons smile
Upon the soul
Who is willing to listen
To the gentle breath
Winsome winds, 
Tender rains falling,
Soothing the spirit with
Calm that caresses
The deepest feelings,
Intimate,...

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Categories: commemoration, appreciation, beautiful, encouraging, hope,
Form: Free verse



The Brave
Land of gold 
Glorious Pearl of the Orient 
There's a story untold 
About warriors of valiance 

They snatched victory 
From the hands that prey 
To...

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Categories: commemoration, hero,
Form: Ballad
Emmas Garden
Emma’s Garden

Flowers of infinity descendants of Divinity florals displaying on Earth
Within their symmetry of exotic imagery guiding love and light to birth
Botanical beaming with Delphian...

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Categories: commemoration, beautiful, celebration, flower,
Form: Rhyme
Urban Legend-Gators In Nyc
Two teens shoveling snow that February day,
wanting to hurry up so they could play,
quickly shoveling heaping piles of snow,
into an open 1935 NYC manhole,

Seeing something...

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Categories: commemoration, animal, new york, remembrance
Form: Light Verse
It All Started With a Parade
It All Started With A Parade

All walks of people crowding the streets 
Like moving vessels of a mighty fleet. 
Jolly Diana, a wake-up call at...

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Categories: commemoration, anniversary, children, people, community,
Form: Rhyme
Multilayered - the Cause Is Civil Rights
MULTILAYERED: THE CAUSE IS CIVIL RIGHTS!

How time has changed.
I am a colored woman by DNA living in a country of diversity.
I can remember my first...

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Categories: commemoration, america, change, conflict, discrimination,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Acceptation, Part 1
Life, love and communication, this is something for every nation. It started with temptation and verification, but ended in complication. So listen to this declaration.

We...

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Categories: commemoration, appreciation, education, inspiration, rap,
Form: Monorhyme
Founder's Day
Founder's day 
>A wind of gratitude is waving
>River of love is dancing, exhibiting wonderful styles whiles meandering
>Cloud of commemoration is drifting.
>All to say ‘’ayeekooo’’


>’’Osagyefo y3...

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Categories: commemoration, africa, anniversary, birthday, happy
Form: Lyric
Picture Frames
Picture Frames a poem


Children in families,
Grandmothers, mothers, fathers and grandchildren alike.

Memories, keepsakes found in pictures in Picture Frames.

Look at our Esha(Ayesha) she was 8 in...

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Categories: commemoration, beauty, black african american,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Dogwood Tree
THE DOGWOOD TREE


Legend says of the Dogwood tree
That on it, Christ was crucified
His blood was shed for you and me
When the soldier pierced His side

The...

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Categories: commemoration, historytree, tree, , memorial,
Form: Rhyme
Ashurah
(Every year in the lunar month of Muharram we Shia Muslims commemorate the brutal martyrdom of the grandson of our Holy prophet Muhammed (s.a.w) and...

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Categories: commemoration, history, islamic, remembrance day,
Form: Elegiac Lyric

Book: Shattered Sighs