Best Lest Poems

Lest we forget

When the Shelling 
And the Din of gunfire
Finally stopped 

His mind was shot
A hollow broken shell
Stood

Crooked in the corner of some foreign land
Every boy and man befell unto
Inspite of class or rank 
Come 1,
Come all 
To walk the plank

Into no mans land
Gods hands

As...

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 Somewhere there is a field,
in that field there is a stone.
The men that lie beneath it,
are men that are unknown.
This solemn stone holds words 
and those words it holds are few.
But those few words it holds,
are words that hold so true.

THESE BRAVE MEN STOOD...

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In churned up soil the poppy rose 
On top of death, still steadily grows 
And in our minds we see the crosses 
That lie in rows and count our losses 

Blood that drips from tiniest bloom 
Beloved children, lost from the womb 
Their essence blown...

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The fountain in my office reminds me of you
Your free flowing spirit
The water plays finding it’s own path
The giggling sounds it sings

How many times caught up in work
I’ve stopped 
And smiled
And let your spirit warm through me
Lest I forget

I’ll hike again this summer
I’ll go deep...

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Watching old newsreels sadness washes over me 

Highstepping horses, gentle eyes transformed in fear 
valiantly charging under men that could not yield

Amid the noise of cannons, over the death-filled  battle-field ,
sides flecked with foam,  so far from home,  
somehow they know how...

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I remember those days when just a kid,
the old ten shilling note, and the odd quid.*
Teddy boys in their drain pipes, fur collars
smelling of nicotine, street wise scholars.
Conkers,* glass alleys* and comics as well,
bow and arrows, gat* to ring the school bell.
Electric tram, trolley bus...

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I want to forget the headlines
Or stated by the news team
Another soldier shot dead
Makes me want to scream

The family must  be distraught
With it blasted  on the news
Do the news editors ever give a thought
Of how this is shattering to the nerves

I am not saying that...

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Contest Name	Things that suck

Lest we forget the Bad decisions …

(Myxo the rabbit steal the Bagmans Bunny),     first use of a deadly weapon
( Cane toads 4 cane beetles,)( 12 atom bombs exploded …what!!!)

Does anyone remember back in 1955 …
 why we...

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Love, honor, respect,
                Each, is your human brother,
                God, is our Father.

   ...

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Lest sink in 
Darkness! 

Grind my smiles 
Which, remained  
Hidden in your letters and 
Trapping in poems  

Make it a soup 
Flavoring in clamminess dawn, 
Roses shame, and 
April breeze, that restless
 In spikes  

Lest sink in, 
Darkness! 

Present it to you...

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What hurt filled words did you convey,                              What in the world did you say,                                   ...

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Remember them who lay in rows and
rows where poppies grow, and
enjoy this life because many died, 
to make it so.  Mother's weep for a
child no more, echoing canons can be
heard in the distance, and many have 
bowed their heads to cry. Bring yourself
to silence...

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Kristallnacht 
the shards that pierced
humanity

crystal night
beneath the scars
shards forever prick

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© 9th November, 2019

"Crystal Night" is the name that's been given to the night of 9-10 November 1938. In almost all...

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Simper Fi
Lest We Forget
Written: by Tom Wright
12/15-04

Our soldiers lie not hidden in foreign soil 
Forgotten, to lie alone throughout the ages.
For we dare not forget the cause or toil
Of those lives curtailed by numberless pages.

Defenders all, of a freedom we hold unfailing
O how it seems...

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Lest I Should Falter

I sit and watch as clouds gather above
huddled under my umbrella, singing along
to pitter-patter droplets destitute of
emotional mourning, or yearning, or love
befitting the day; our emotionless song.

But billowy winds stir up in the trees
which howl in despair and fright
and cast off their...

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