Best Normandy Poems

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 monument shadows
Dot the trenches and empty emplacements 
As the final testimony of the fallen
Still ringing frightened with those desperate voices
Proclaiming...

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I was in-processing my Army unit in Germany when the fortieth anniversary of D-Day happened; but, alas, I couldn't leave.  I wanted so much to be there to meet the old surviving veterans, to shake their hands and hear their stories.  I had...

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There
on the beaches
lay a thousand dreams.

There
in the fields
stand a thousand stones.

There
in the skies
soar a thousand souls.

There
in the homeland
weep a thousand hearts.

There
for the future
sleep a thousand pasts....

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Their courageous bodies lay like garland 
on the sandy shores of Normandy, 
Their duty there well defined.
Fearless of every returning home 
And with their dying breath's they whispered
For God, Country and the Flag
Let Freedom Ring, Let Freedom Ring
With their last full measure of loyalty
and impeccable...

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An eerie calm settled o'er Normandy Beach that solemn summer's night.
The debris of battle was strewn 'neath the full moon's silvery light.
The tide cleansed the beach of the blood of men who were in the fore;
Brave men who'd faced the hell of war on that...

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I will board a plane
and visit the grave
of that brave soldier
who left his country
to defend the principles of liberty
banned by a heartless dictator
who praised a pure race.

In ocean-washed Normandy
the fierce battle went on for days,
American and British
invaded the desolate beach,
here the Normans
called their home eventually,...

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Another Normandy Day

Of this very poem, I am the creator,
Even though it now may be much later,
Thinking about Normandy and what was done
Lucky and fortunate of them I was not one.

They came on shore boats landing on sand
Hopefully just like their leaders had planned
Yet, water...

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I stand looking out to the sea 
 But in my mind Normandy is just a memory 
 Of an early morning that day in June 
 We said a prayer and faced our doom 
 So many were lost that day 
 Those memories...

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Dawn breaks beyond the eastern sea
I cannot help but wonder,
What could it be, that sound I hear
The sky's to clear for thunder,

In secrecy they made their plans
Deceptions, they are counting,
For when this day ends, so solemnly
To the victor is the bounty,

I can hear their cries,...

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Tombstones At Normandy

Each tombstone is small sliver of a sheave; 
With love bring in and behind never leave; 
Memories exist; 
Will be missed; 
Thank God their souls he did retrieve. 

James Horn

I am amazed how you can put 
so many words together in such 
an...

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There seemed to be so much suspense
And Normandy did make the difference
Many soldiers had all been on  edge
As they looked up at a high ledge.

Hitler was with a deluded dream
Of being best and reigning supreme
As water reached each soldier's waste
Approaching shore as they made...

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Lest We Forget 
I can hear him now , calling me , lost in the dark , in the deep seas of Normandy, I can hear him now , god why have you forsaken me are the cries on the waves from the seas of...

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Velcro shod man
lingers in the V.A. clinic
for yet another visit;
he slowly turns pages,
reading pictures.

Withered man
peeking from beneath bushy eyebrows
laying odds on another day
at the park:  stooping
to stop the ball
a kid just threw curved
into the wheelchair.

Sitting
his old bowed head
white and sparse of hair
a tired head,
tired...

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My Response To Normandy Poem by Gary Dop.

Ships and boats are near Normandy shore,
Searching for an enemy that they do abhor;
While all the waves would continue to break,
Did proceed to say prayers for God's sake.

God gave much energy for us to be brave,
Even though some...

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Normandy

For man to set alight his earthly pyre 
was destined from the capture of the spark.
T’was mere survival harnessing its fire
to lift his primal world out of the dark.
It seared his prey, it warmed his frigid night 
and let abyss beyond the Sun unveil. 
It...

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