Best Unknown Soldiers Poems

by Maxwell "Max" Sebastian Burchett

One Memorial Day made me consider
The many tombs to unknown soldiers,
In memoriam to the lost 
From wars then and now,
Unnamed ghosts.

Is...

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He Lay Where He Had Fallen.
Enemy Fire Had Brought Him Down.
He Knew His Life Was Over,
As He Lost All Sight and Sound.

He Knew a Peaceful...

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The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier - Canada

We all know you now
You have fallen at our feet
You have guarded them all with life and limb
Noble...

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WHERE FREEDOM FINDS THE FIRE-Screwed XIII Contest
Sponsor: Rob Carmack

The liberation that resides within burning flames,
creates a disaster of unknown soldiers with no names.
Emancipation of nightmares...

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Tales of heroes beyond, the normal despair of war’s plight,
Hearing of these stories, make us all quiver, in the night.
Each of them that go to...

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At the foot of the unknown soldier
I heard them speak about the past
The generation born after the war
I heard them sing of warfare
Like children recite...

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PTSD

Like rabbit in the headlight caught
I want to move, i know I ought
But quicksand stuck, I’m petrified 
My body still, arms laid by side
Stretched out on...

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Passchendaele 
Morning mist hung over the front line like a dirge,
as far as one could see the landscape was gray as 
a German infanterist´s uniform...

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Once upon a time it was called the Great War 
Alright it wasn’t a great war said the dead
Not according to the unknown soldiers 
Blown...

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1.    John Desmond Patrick Keegan
2.    Alfred, Lord Tennyson 
3.    Sally Aline Mae Beller
4.   ...

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Oh Gettysburg, your battle flags lie charred
beneath the corps that stormed the blue abyss.
A fence of stone has marked the final yard
where vanquished legions vanished...

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In Arlington's tomb we tenderly keep,
Unknown soldiers in eternal sleep...

They fought and died for this great land,
Now God is holding them in his hand..

All Americans...

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A nebula rises unfazed after fission:
after a fractured debate, greed crouching on
the wrinkled noses of rugged bouncers.
In remote history someone was burning itself out.

A black...

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Do they still dig up bodies from
The killing Fields of Flanders,
Bones of those long ago 
Enticed and betrayed,
Lost generation, sold and
Slaughtered for no real cause.

Do...

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In similar kind the blood of violent dynasty's
remains distinct without conscience 
its empire of centuries
branded hot upon the slave born sweat 
and to dictatorship
bring the...

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