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Cenotaph Poems - Poems about Cenotaph


Premium Member Cenotaph Memories
Cenotaph Memories And silence fell around the stone buildings, As thousands gathered to remember And some to forget, friends and family lost, No longer there to support, Every heartbeat, a tear through time, Every tear drop, a rip across the universe, And thousands gathered at the Cenotaph, Just to remember, give thanks, and live; Johnny left in thirty-nine, France is where he died, Fred departed...

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Categories: cenotaph, anniversary, christian, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Hull Cenotaph, Remembrance Sunday, 2018
The Guildhall clock chimes Eleven times this special day, A great silence descends as The two minutes tick away. On parade at the Cenotaph, An old man among old men (Where did the years go for In my mind I’m young again): Not in best battledress Or even Regimental Blues But I’m booted and suited With not quite bulled shoes, And the old drill moves come back So...

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Categories: cenotaph, anniversary, emotions, patriotic, remembrance
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Cenotaph - For Stumpy
In loving remembrance Of all the beautiful trees Sacrificed in the pursuit Of my literary ambitions....

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Categories: cenotaph, allegory, environment, literature,
Form: Elegy
Cityscape Silhouettes
The sinful playacting of the leaders insists on crowing over empty victories, and words without being versed are cremated on the despoiled landscape; Elsewhere, night steps up on every toe and hangs fire. All roads and lanes want bold footprints, it will not matter whose, the wind’s shrilling summons convivial light on the blurry faces and their doleful cries struggle to reach far...

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Categories: cenotaph, city,
Form: Free verse
The Queen At the Cenotaph
Is there no blacker shade of black, For my suit, in order to look back?...

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Categories: cenotaph, bereavement, courage, death, history,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member A Cenotaph Would Speak Out Loud
A CENOTAPH WOULD SPEAK OUT LOUD There is, in my still heart, room for you, Despite the unmannerly way you have behaved I have managed to conserve a bloom or two. You smiled, and said love was for the few, The deed is done, your garden, it is paved, In my torn heart, there’s still room for you. You said the years...

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Categories: cenotaph, angel, betrayal, sad,
Form: Villanelle
In Cenotaph
One may not name them, for they died as faceless as they lived, their monument yet unseen, its peak above the clouds, remembering what they would not, projecting even from their beds, and through the midnight hours, their acts of faceless love. Theirs was the courage just to be, for that is what love is, that hate is not— can never be,...

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Categories: cenotaph, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Cenotaph
I caught a draft In the Cenotaph, Honoring a dead man Who was not there The clergy saw me shiver, Got me a chair, The ceremony went on And I died right there Well at least I provided The funeral focus Although, for years, There were rumors Of Hocus-Pocus...

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Categories: cenotaph, adventure, allegory, angst, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Aboretum Autumn(Cenotaph Day)
The death of foliage- reddens tear filled eyes....

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Categories: cenotaph, nature, peace, seasons,
Form: Lanterne

Book: Reflection on the Important Things