Best Commemoration Poems
Below are the all-time best Commemoration poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of commemoration poems written by PoetrySoup members
A Commemoration For Sunshine SmileI 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 SecondThe 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 ChanukahThe 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
Alive and With MedalsHe 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
Pure DelightLike 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 BraveLand 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 GardenEmma’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 NycTwo 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 ParadeIt 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 RightsMULTILAYERED: 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 1Life, 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 DayFounder'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 FramesPicture 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
The Dogwood TreeTHE 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