Best Normandy Poems
Below are the all-time best Normandy poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of normandy poems written by PoetrySoup members
My Return To NormandyHigh 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
Disposable WisdomEach 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 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:
normandy, freedom, hero, memorial day,
Form:
Rhyme
Dedicated To Uncle Lester DeschlerLooking 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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Categories:
normandy, analogy, beach, memorial, war,
Form:
Couplet
Anglo-Norman Arisingthe 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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Categories:
normandy, england, history, identity, immigration,
Form:
Narrative
England - Gleaming In the Distanceacross 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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Categories:
normandy, conflict, destiny, england, history,
Form:
Narrative
A Waste of SpaceI 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
Categories:
normandy, hate, love, world,
Form:
Etheree
D Day 75Some 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
Too Many PoppiesToo 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
In Memoriam Quietly Always CloseIn 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 VeteranPrayer 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 VeteranI 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 SaluteMy 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