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My Return To Normandy
High on the Normandy cliffs
Looking out over Pointe du Hoc
As cold Atlantic winds whisper out
The names of the brothers I left behind
Now only fine marble...

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Categories: normandy, brother, death, history, introspection,
Form: Elegy



Premium Member Disposable Wisdom
Each day Annie Lesley opened a can
Her eighty-six-year-old hands trembling
As she sat with her cat and ate pet food
What is wrong with this elder’s rendering?

Pride...

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Categories: normandy, age, cat, endurance, life,
Form: Rhyme
Eyes of Blue
A 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: normandy, freedom, hero, memorial day,
Form: Rhyme
Dedicated To Uncle Lester Deschler
Looking Back Long Ago

We had been looking back long ago
While time crept by seeming so slow;
Distance between time kept spreading;
May do something they were dreading.

On...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: normandy, analogy, beach, memorial, war,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Anglo-Norman Arising
the wealth of norman England is poised to grow
  towns enlarge, markets exchange, a fresh fertilising sprinkled culture
  kingdoms extend with numbers reducing
...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: normandy, england, history, identity, immigration,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member England - Gleaming In the Distance
across the Doggerland dogged people trudge
  Neanderthals, Heidelbergers...Sapiens, the last ones standing
  hairy mammoths, heavy life bearing down
  the mighty maw of...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: normandy, conflict, destiny, england, history,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Waste of Space
I balance my illicitly obtained bottle of absinthe from a man who knows a man, for an exorbitant amount of Euros, on the worn wooden...

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Categories: normandy, culture, introspection, literature, metaphor,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Hate and Love
Hate
                        ...

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Categories: normandy, hate, love, world,
Form: Etheree
Premium Member D Day 75
Some came by air
Some came by sea
They fought and died
So we could be free

The 6th of June 1944
Normandy a place in France 
Operation Overlord or...

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Categories: normandy, hero, history, military, remember,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Too Many Poppies
Too Many Poppies  

I don’t want a poppy
I don’t want a shield
I don’t want to visit
Rows in Flanders Fields

Another young person 
Yes a young...

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Categories: normandy, emotions, war,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member In Memoriam Quietly Always Close
In Memoriam Quietly Always Close

Are they whispers, then, settling
So gently upon that slightest breeze wending
     Over the granite crosses and statues...

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Categories: normandy, grave, heaven, love, memory,
Form: Free verse
Prayer For a Homeless Veteran
Prayer for a Homeless Veteran
By Bob Corson

From the mountains in Afghanistan to the shores of Normandy
Brave American men and women risked their lives for you...

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Categories: normandy, christian, humanity, hurt, military,
Form: I do not know?
American Veteran
I stood my watch into the night
Even though it was cold
Even though it was hot
In countries I could hardly spell

I trained every day to be...

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Categories: normandy, military, veterans day,
Form: I do not know?
Swagger Daggers---Hooked On Ebonics, Vol 1
*written for Verlena's Contest "EBONICS, Let's Do Some Slang"


SHAWTY,

Yir' boy fin' ta' told ya' bout some lessons in what the Man call Ebonics.
Cus' I gots'...

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Categories: normandy, africa, america, basketball, crazy,
Form: Free verse
My Memorial Day Family Salute
My mother’s brother lies in a grave in Normandy 
If he had lived I would have known him as Uncle Stanley 
I recall his oval...

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Categories: normandy, family, memorial day, memory,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs