Best Servicemen Poems
That 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 our medals
Place them on our chest
Remember our friends
We have laid to rest
Remember those that went before
Those that were lost in another war
People think it's for soldiers old
Now it's time for them to be told
Rightly so we should do it with pride
Mark of respect for them that died
Show the world they didn't die in vain
For there families I feel the pain
They fought for our freedom of speech
And died on a foreign beach
Yes I'm talking about Dunkirk
And you may think I'm beserk
Without these acts of soldiers past
Would we be here and talk so fast
So on this day in mid November
I ask you all to sit and remember
The 11th hour on the 11th day
Shall be known as armistice day
When we wear a flanders poppy
And some of us may get soppy
It is good to let the tears flow
It shows gratitude to those that know
So as you see me March past
I was a soldier and not the last
There are veterans in there early twenties
Who stand tall and tears are plenty
Bravery and courage may appear less
No whistle blows but I digress
The point of this is to say
If only war would go away
These men and women have survived
Some of them burning up inside
So remember the fallen that is right
Bear a thought for servicemen tonight
And all those veterans on parade
Bow your head as they have stayed
R.I.P all personell who have passed
CARPE DIEM
Categories:
servicemen, memorial day, military, veterans
Form:
Free verse
The Lord be with you!
Almighty Lord, Fountain of Wisdom, Thank You for the Grace You have given
Your children this past year. Thank You for all Your children to whom You
have shown mercy, and brought home to Your loving Kingdom. Thank You for those who's
suffering You have ended, for our Families and Friends, whom You have watched over. I Pray
Dear Lord, that in the New Year that comes, that Your Loving Grace will envelope us in our
hour of need. Allow us the wisdom to give thanks for all that we have, no matter how small
and insignificant it may seem,
and the Love and Grace to give to those who have not. I Pray that You allow
our children see, what we have not, to hear what we have dismissed, to Love those we have
not. Hear our Prayers for Servicemen and women throughout the world,
that You Give them protection from harms way, and that they be kept safe in Your
countenance. Hear our Prayers for those who Govern, that You may grant them
the wisdom to make decisions that are just, that will better Mankind not destroy
it. Almighty and Merciful Father We ask and Pray for the forgiveness of our sins,
and that we be granted the strength and Grace to walk in Your way in this New Year.
In Prayer we ask this in the Name of Your Son, Jesus Christ......Amen
The Lord be with all of you this New Year......+
Categories:
servicemen, faith, hope, lovechildren, thank
Form:
Pastoral
One hundred years ago in 1921
The 15th of May a new charity begun
Amalgamating charities of which there were 4
The Royal British Legion set up to aid those from the great war.
Earl Haig and Tom Lister were the founders.
Supporting those back from Flanders
1.75 million of those that returned
Had some form of disability from amputee or minds totally burned
Then there were those wives, widows daughter's and sons.
Who's Husbands, Fathers lives had succumbed
There lives taken by the enemy
The RBL emblem became the Flanders poppy
The poppy is the symbol of Rememberance
For the sacrifice of life, so peace had a chance
Every conflict since the great war
More recentely Afghanistan, Iraq, some more obscure
Korea, Malaya, Oman and The Falklands
Servicemen and women put lives in others hands
So comemerate their passing on Armistice day
11th November sit quietly and pray
Without these sacrifices in all these wars
The world would have broken that's for sure
So every year stand still and reflect
Those that died deserve your respect
Those that survived may be stood in your town
Looking sorrowful and feeling down
The best thing you can do is show your support
Words from Brigadier Marriot " Do as you ought"
Bow your head when you hear that bugle play
Stand still and watch those on parade this Rememberance Day
Someone in your family`s history
Will have been effected by a catastrophe
Join in be proud of your countries past
Hopefully all these sacrifices are finished at last
But if not, and more wars happen
Support those military men and women
The have no choice whether to stay or go
Orders are followed, allegiance they show
For Queen and country they will fight
For your freedom and human right.
Remember them is all I say.
For your Tommorow they gave their today
Categories:
servicemen, history, memorial, military, remembrance
Form:
Free verse
Solitary seafarer sings sea chanties,
salty sea breeze serenity,
sea birds skim waves,
suddenly, so many sailors' souls
of the sunken WW II ship USS Indianapolis
started singing sonorous,
soaring from sea sepulcher,
stirring sacrifice so sacred,
such sorrow,
souls still scintillating, still seaward,
servicemen shipmates solemnized,
seared, sealed in spiritual solidarity,
salute. ~
Categories:
servicemen, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form:
Alliteration
Sweet September, see how splendidly she shines!
Subtlety submitting seasonal splendour, she
swamps summer’s splendiferous sights,
by stealthily shrouding splendid scenery,
with suffused sensuous, sybaritic, scenarios!
Sublimely serene, she spatters and splashes
slivers of saffron, sepia and sienna shades,
slapdash over the sedentary summer scene, sending
sightseers silly! Soon, spooky spectres sporting skittish
shadows, surprise and startle singularly sensitive givens,
seeking soothing solitude someplace. Suspicious solo
sentient stalkers, suspecting solo sailors sometimes, shiftily seen
spying on sequestered sibylline, spectator savants, stay silent.
Such suppressed servile sophisticates, spotting smart
Seedy Senators, sitting sloppily slumped - some silently
supine - send sensual suggestive signs to sexy secretaries, as
subdued sartorial suitors stand speechless. Some, sober and staid,
state spasmodic spates of salacious, and sometimes sanctimonious, statements.
Seemingly superfluous, scores of servicemen and seniors suggest
specific superficial senile support services, should shut shortly!
Studious spokesmen suggest scads of spurious suggestions in September,
send scrambled signals, since severely symbolic sentence structure,
should seek speedy severance from sedulous speculative stricture, and
stimulating scattered sophomore senses and sensibility is senseless!
Since scathingly scanning this alliteration, it seems successful!
Hopefully a fun filled frolicking folio with ‘fin-esse?’
Rhymer. September 6th, 2016.
Categories:
servicemen, giggle, september,
Form:
Alliteration
Fare thee well our precious men and boys
Marching into war
Fighting for a purpose
Does anyone know what for
As some you return lying down
Instead of tall and strong
How can we all sit and watch
Surely this is wrong
Will you buy a poppy
Will you shed a tear
13,310 soldiers
Killed in 10 years
Downing street want to resign
Saying it is now the time
That's not a victory we know its a crime
That's not a victory on the front line
The soldiers do their jobs
Fighting for our Queen
Lets not forget though the military supplies
Not the best we have seen
A lack of helicopters sent to assist
These terrorists could now be missed
British soldiers now lost their lives
Us army men also lost to their wives
We need to help somehow
Britain decide what to do
The lives of our servicemen around the world
Could depend on you
Why should we leave this to them in London Town
Mp's who don't know what biscuit they like, I frown
Categories:
servicemen, angst, anxiety, dedication, education,
Form:
Rhyme
Afghanistan, Afghanistan,
you can't win a war in Afghanistan
ask the Russians and A Mer I Cans,
if they can't do it, than no-one can
Watch out!....The War in Afghanistan
Afghanistan, Afghanistan,
full of Al-Qaeda and Taliban
opium poppies throughout the land,
a big paycheck for Afghanistan,
Watch out!... for The War in Afghanistan.
In the still of night, before he took flight,
Navy Seals dropped by, Bin Laden must die......
Afghanistan, Afghanistan,
it's time that we leave Afghanistan,
We've kicked the Taliban in the Can
no need for us to lose Servicemen
Watch out !... for The War in Afghanistan....
let's leave, get out of Afghanistan...
No more........War in Afghanistan...........
Categories:
servicemen, funny, war, war, war,
Form:
Rhyme
To the servicemen
who paid with their life
to ensure our freedom again
and to live without strife.
Your sacrifice I commemorate
in my humble way
and your memory I celebrate
on this Veteran’s Day.
November 8, 2017
Categories:
servicemen, memory, tribute, veterans day,
Form:
Rhyme
As we rallied to the Falklands cry,
And prepared ourselves to fight and die,
Some willing, some pressed, some volunteers,
All with deep down hidden fears.
Gangways gone, Hawser sip,
Sail Intrepid, fighting ship!!
Long hard days, sleepless nights
Working hard to get things right.
Ascension passed, Falklands closing
Argentine threat, everyone joking.
D Day troops- we pushed them through,
Still we laughed, so little we knew.
For us the war was still not real,
How could we know just what we'd feel.
Sympathy, hurt, pain and fears,
revulsion, hate, horror and tears
Bombs exploding - war is raging,
Begin to realise what we're facing.
Rockets loud and missiles firing,
Heroes living, heroes dying.
"Hit the deck" we hear the cry,
Please dear God I dont want to die
Air raid over, planes depart,
All quiet, that was just the start.
Weeks go past, countless plans
Intrepid:- Battle hardened veterans
Air raids come and air raids go
British Victory? Hopes they grow,
Ships hit, ships sinking,
People hurt, it gets me thinking,
So much pain and so much sorrow
Christ: it could be me tomorrow
Now at last Port Stanley taken
Argentine hopes, all are broken,
Britain has won, or have we really?
Peace has been paid for, very dearly.
Thousands of lives have been lost,
How can one start to count the cost!
Shortly, back to Britain will be the course,
Set by the victorious:- Task Force!
Into the arms of the waiting newsmen,
To be out on page one to page ten.
But when the publicity has all passed,
As I'm sure you know it cannot last,
Who'll remember the fallen lads,
Who gave their lives for the Falkland Islands.
The distant land no-one recalls,
Except when they bother to take a slight pause.
So take heed Politicians, look back over history,
And forget the Chivalry and the Glory.
They don' exist - lest not in this age,
Or can they in any future war we may wage.
Before you set forth on any crusade you may persue,
Remember the servicemen, you need to back you.
From this Epitaph, let one thing remain,
Don't even let one man have died in Vain!!!!!!
AEM(M)Clifford
20.6.82
Categories:
servicemen, warwar, pain, may, me,
Form:
Verse 1
Born dumb in Corn Pop’s town,
first kickback he took was a Ukraine shake down,
end up like a creep that sniffs hair too much
‘til you lie your whole life just coverin’ up, now…
Chorus
Born in the USA
Joe was born dumb in the USA
Joe was born dumb in the USA
Born in the USA…
Verse 2
Got in a little hometown jam
so they put a rifle in my hand,
sent me off to a foreign land
to go and kill the Taliban…
Chorus
Born in the USA
Joe was born dumb in the USA
Joe was born dumb in the USA
Born in the USA…
Verse 3
Back home in the laptop “conspiracy”
the Big Guy said “Son, if it was up to me”,
Joe went down to see the DA man,
he said “Hunter’s got your 10% in his hand” now…
Verse 4
I had a brother in Kabul
fightin’ off the Taliban for a fool,
he’s all gone and they still rule,
Joe risked his life and left him stuck
in his Afghanistan clusterfu-ck…
Verse 4
In the shadows of Joe’s dumbfu-ckery
out by the gunfire of the enemy,
13 servicemen blown up down the road,
nowhere to run, ain’t got nowhere to go…
Chorus
Born in the USA
Joe was born dumb in the USA
Joe was born dumb in the USA
Born in the USA,
he’s a dumbfu-ckin’ daddy in the USA!
Written: August 2021
My take on the Springsteen
anthem. An anti-war song
and now an anti-idiot song.
Dedicated to Crooked Joe.
Categories:
servicemen, political, satire, song,
Form:
Political Verse
Remembrance day is here again
The country pays it's respect
The veterans eyes show his pain
His head is bowed as he reflects
It's not just about the great war
Although this is where it started
Many other conflicts, mainly abroad
Remember those who have departed
There are many servicemen on parade
Marching with veterans who'd gone before
A Solemn day not just a masquerade
These guys and girls have been to war
So tell your children what this day means
It's not a carnival that it would appear
Explain that it's about loss off life
That it's OK to shed a tear
Remembrance day must live on
The story of the poppy retold
One day those soldiers will be gone
The poppy emblem will be sold
I hope that this never occurs
And our youth will keep it strong
I hope you read this and concur
Our history does belong
So this Sunday 11th of November
Go outside and see them march past
This is the time we remember
Fallen from the beginning to the last
From flanders fields to desert plains
These veterans deserve our praise
Our freedom is what was gained
As they walked through the smoke and haze
The younger veteran has also done his share
This we cannot forget
His actions in war he must bare
Thier stories untold as yet
When they are told you'll be amazed
At what they have seen and done
Opium plantations set ablaze
Your freedom and life he won
Categories:
servicemen, history, military, remembrance day,
Form:
Acrostic
War Is...
War is unkind to servicemen, women, animals, flora, fauna, nature's terrains, seas, atmospheres, and everything else
War is unjust and unethical to everyone
War is the slaughtering of innocent young and old men and women of both sides which are fighting for their leader's version of freedom, or simply protecting themselves from so called enemies
War is fought on both domestic and forgein lands
War is authorized and legalized mass murder of both sides
War is an inevitable necessity evil in order to be free
War is beyond expensive monetarily, mentally, physically, psychologically, death stats, and causality states versus survival stats
War is heartbreaking, heart-wrecking, and heart-wrenching, to the servicemen, to the parents, lovers, wives, husbands, and children of servicemen on both sides
War is caused by several different variables usually for economic and territorial gain
religion, Nationalism, revenge, Civil War,
revolutionary, being defensive, ethnic cleansing and other ideological mass killings, globalism, world domination, and so many others
War is fought by young and old men and women as either draftees, or volunteers
War is ugly
War is horrific
War is traumatic
War is dramatic
War is psychologically scarring
War is terrifying
War is brutal
War is common
War is unpopular
War is propagated
War is hated
War is detrimental
War is immoral
War is sometimes manufactured
War is unpreventable
War is fighting for your and their commander-in-chief's ideologies whether you like it or not
War is glorified
War is sometimes created by opposing forces in order to gain something from one another
War is everything I mentioned above and so much more
War is not a favorite of mine, however, as United States Navy veteran and having lots of veterans in my family as well there is no harm in honoring and respecting the young and old men and women who died in war for us, and those that didn't die in battle but still served in the military for all of us!
Categories:
servicemen, adventure, conflict, confusion, courage,
Form:
List
THE DIE IS CAST
“I See,” said a blind man to his deaf Spouse, emphatically
I hear the S-rhetoric She replied Sarcastically
The symptoms and signs of Stagnation
The Syndrome of intermittent Systems and Structures
Signing and later whining or wining
Structural adjustment and subsidies
The insatiable appetite for Sausages and Swine
Speculation and Smart Partnerships Scenarios
Synergies, Song of Science, Strategies, Solutions all Send Shivers down my Spine
Stock exchange and Streamlining just Sentimental
What with Solo driving, Sole proprietorship of Strings of businesses
As the faith of the Servicemen wavers, the Sales are reportedly Staggering
A Slump they call it but there’s Something Sinister
Swing into action to Subjugate these Saboteurs?
My Spirit faints But rejoice oh my Soul
Share the Spoil of the Wicked, Shillings and Swiss Francs or $ollars
If they call this Scathing, what is Stealing?
Smelling, a Stench!
Servant leaders, Surge forward to foil this Sunlight melancholy
For a calm Sea never made a good Swimmer
Study the Science of the Soil and the oil
When funds are Squandered
Guillotine the Small witty cashiers, the sardines
A Sacrifice of sorts, Scape goating and Summary Sentencing
“Where are the big bully Signatories, the Sharks”, a Senior Citizen asks?
Scot free, in Singapore in another Symposium
And who will Sub-due the enemy? Where are the species of valour, women of virtue?
Behold the Son of David, Save us!
Saviour, open your eyes and See, take our Prayer Seriously
With You on our Side we can Salvage the Situation and Scale walls
Categories:
servicemen, allegory, prayer,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
We hope to be treated kind, without bias
So often we're sorely disappointed
From the start, we’re taught how to love & hate
But life teaches us lessons, along the way
Different beliefs don’t mean either is wrong
Educational values arise from all cultures
Covered in ash, at New York's ground zero
Working together, colors obscured… no judging
Our servicemen fight, protecting one another
Gender, race… religion aren’t of the soldiers concern
Our beliefs should always shine through us
Striving to maintain basic human rights & freedom for all
Categories:
servicemen, freedom, love,
Form:
Free verse
“Where have all the flowers gone,” the poet wrote
A metaphor for those lost in a cruel war of late
Lives that were wrested from home and family
And thrown into a milieu of humiliation and hate
No real purpose for forfeiting their young lives
In conflict that obviously portended no good ending
But then, what war of that magnitude ever does? --
Is worth our young servicemen and women sending
To sacrifice their lives for some undefined honor
Is it patriotism to assert ourselves in a foreign affair
Methinks there are ulterior motives unexplained
That did not justify the loss of lives way over there.
written November 5, 2021
Categories:
servicemen, how i feel, loss,
Form:
Rhyme