Best Commemoration Poems

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 poetry 
Ever since I've known her she has proven to be a positive influence 
on this site, spreading nothing but...

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Commemoration

In my commemoration they were standing on my grave
I was onlooker to them far from eternal base
Claps by the hands offer of garlands
Shaking neck side by side a note of publish in some face

Women and men most of them were contemporary saints
Among colleagues only few...

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Clinger to the stars
Pulled down by gravity
Beneath are sparrows
Squeeze me to become the warrior

Blindfold me with the darkness
Faze me with pretensions
Shower me with Benjamin
Dry me with ignorance

Kill me with your vocabulary
I’ll bury me with thoughts of you
Let me wear your ring
Wear my weary

We let the...

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Delicate purity
Softly pallid
None akin
Of affection and beauty
Chilling 

Seraphic tears 
Wept
Sodden snippets
Of yesterdays 
Monochrome
Reminders 
Without order
Devolving back
To nothingness

Amorous and beautiful
But so cold...

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We commemorate the death of our love ones
We don't celebrate the death of our love ones
Today is not a great day
Today is a very sad day
We don't care about wealth, avarice, money and cupidity
We abhor hate, greed, hatred, racism, and police brutality
Today, we don't care...

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Like footprints paved in
the snow in the driveway coat-
ed by fresh blankets 
of white descending snow flakes
in the morning, I know they 

are still there. Like the 
trees bright with vibrant leaves fall-
en by winter and 
flowers kissed by butterflies 
replaced with dull grass, I...

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From Topeca County
                     To Maryland and back
               Thurgood spoke to the...

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You are a commemoration.
You remind me of a once happy moment.
When everything else did not matter,
When for some time I felt a little bit better
All the words I thought you meant.
All the breathtaking texts you sent.
When you were there, when I required an ear.
During the...

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We can never forget 9/11
We will forever remember such a date
A date that will live in infamy
A date that has everything in it:
Sadness, fire, death, destruction and bravery
Heroism, sickness and resilience, except happiness
9/11/2001 is a memorable and a daring date
That changed the world. Things are...

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Blown Fuse

I won’t be parading to honour the dead.

Something’s gone pear-shaped inside my head.

All the guilt and confusion that have built through the years

Have blown out the fuse in the space ’tween my ears.

I don’t know the reason, can’t explain why it’s so.

All the rest...

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May your annual commemoration
of the winter solstice
with one of the Earth's poles
at its maximum tilt from the sun
be abundant with innumerable manifestations
of felicity friends good food and fun
and may the next full circuit
of the ecliptic engender
a propensity toward
bestowing plenteousness too
and may unparalleled prosperity
be forthcoming
and settle...

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