Best Memorial Day Poems
Below are the all-time best Memorial Day poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of memorial day poems written by PoetrySoup members
Memorial DayMost of us play, our lives like a game
Both ends of our candle, consumed by the flame
Choosing a curtain, buying a vowel
Planning tomorrow, forsaking the...
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Categories:
memorial day, america, appreciation, blessing, memorial
Form:
Rhyme
Memorial DayA street lamp illumines our rain soaked flag
as soft filtered shades of red white and blue
try to let sparkles of light glisten through.
Peace fills the...
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Categories:
holiday, memorial day,
Form:
Rhyme
Memorial Day
The fields are now quiet,
The thunder long gone;
The graves with their shadows
Stretch on and on.
The battle once here
Lives but in the past,
Of a war meant...
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Categories:
memorial day, war,
Form:
Elegy
Memorial Day
Memorial Day
by the unknown soldier’s tomb
she prays for closure
- - - - - - - - - - - -
© 28th May...
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Categories:
memorial day,
Form:
Senryu
MEMORIAL DAYThis day, in America, we remember those who died in battle:
MEMORIAL DAY — IN LIME DEPOSITS
In lime deposits, memories live on, as torrential flesh dies.
Cries...
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Categories:
memorial day,
Form:
Quatrain
Military Tunic~Homeless~
A lost guardian angel, sitting on the edge of everything
I push my shopping cart along the cracks of destiny
My house sits on...
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Categories:
memorial day,
Form:
Free verse
Taj MahalNoor* of Taj Mahal, jeweled in red stone
death or love, tranquil oasis alone
rich jasper and jade hanging on its walls
in cold...
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Categories:
memorial day, beautiful, celebration, love, memorial
Form:
Sonnet
Lili MarleneLili Marlene
In times of war love can subdue cynical adversaries,
(Men separated from their vocation, now filled with hatred)
And quell the beast inside their misdirected hearts,
And...
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Categories:
history, memorial day, remembrance
Form:
Verse
Eyes of BlueA people persecuted beyond imagination;
To help them he felt, was his obligation.
He joined the army in World War II;
Not knowing his hell would be Eyes...
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Categories:
freedom, hero, memorial day,
Form:
Rhyme
Unforgettable MomentThose were my green and salad days
My friends, my toys were all my wealth.
Marbles and pebbles, my gems and pearls.
No fear of loss or bother...
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Categories:
for him, memorial day,
Form:
Free verse
LIGHTS OUTLights Out
One hundred years on and still the shout
“Everyone put your lights out”
Just for an hour from 10 to 11
And remember all those souls in...
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Categories:
memorial day, anniversary, appreciation, conflict, eulogy,
Form:
Elegy
August 4 1914It was the summer - August 4
When England joined the First World War
1914 the very year
Before wives and children shed their bitter tears
‘The war to...
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Categories:
memorial day, poetry, remember,
Form:
I do not know?
I was a soldierI was a soldier of the past
And I know im not the last
I signed up to serve my Queen
Far off lands I have seen
As...
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Categories:
courage, memorial day, military,
Form:
Sonnet
Where White Crosses GrowRows and rows and rows of white crosses,
Like sentinels -stone-fixed to the ground.
The wind like a shroud wraps around them,
Enshrining each space where they're found.
Stone...
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Categories:
death, hero, memorial day,
Form:
Rhyme
The Day the Earth MovedThe moment that changed a city
The moment that changed a town
The moment that the earth did move
The moment that walls came down.
Sudden shock in the...
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Categories:
horror, memorial day, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
RememberThat time of year has come again
When we reflect and remember them
Polish our boots and press our kit
Remember those fallen that didn't make it
We shine...
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Categories:
memorial day, military, veterans
Form:
Free verse
DEAD AT HOME DEAD AT HOME -For Veteran's Day
It's a gray day, in the café,
by the side of the road.
There's an old man, took a firm...
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Categories:
memorial day, addiction, angst, betrayal, heartbreak,
Form:
Ballad
Maple Re:Leaf
There is a field that we all know
That passed a torch where Soldiers go
Those that fell fought to the end
From that field they did ascend
To...
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Categories:
memorial day, appreciation, day, dedication, memorial
Form:
Rhyme
I am IndiaI am ... I am the land of Ashoka the Great, of Kwaja E Hind,
Sachin's Sixer, of Sania’s Stoke, of Aryabhata & Abdul...
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Categories:
memorial day, celebration, community, culture, memorial
Form:
Free verse
Where have all the young men goneWhere have all the young men gone?
Gone to fight in foreign lands,
To make the world a better place
And place it in more peaceful hands.
Why did...
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Categories:
hero, memorial day, war,
Form:
Quatrain
Wilderness of grassy plainTHROUGH A WILDERNESS OF
THROUGH A WILDERNESS OF GRASSY PLAIN,
WHERE WAR HAS TOOK PLACE IN A WORLD OF PAINS.
OUR COUNTRY MEN, OUR FATHERS, SONS & OUR...
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Categories:
corruption, grave, memorial day,
Form:
Blank verse
Sometimes YouI went back to the farm seeking Maggie, only to find that she had gone.
Searching for shelter from the storm.
Another sad eyed lady, laid low,...
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Categories:
memorial day, art, friendship, heart, memorial
Form:
Verse
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:
conflict, memorial day, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
Thinking of DadWell, I guess I’m finally that cranky
old Slow Poke: the one who does
25 in a 35—the one who rolls up
his driver’s window, when you pull
alongside...
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Categories:
memorial day, appreciation, freedom, independence day,
Form:
Free verse
Solomon Mahlangu: My Blood will Nourish the Tree that will Bear the Fruits of Freedom(special thanks to a friend who shared this tribute to Solomon Mahlangu)
Solomon Mahlangu: My Blood will Nourish the Tree that will Bear the Fruits of...
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Categories:
memorial day, black african american, courage,
Form:
I do not know?