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 tea...
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Categories:
cenotaphs, anniversary, christian, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Poppy Wreathes
...People of many nations
Rallied to the cause
United in their effort
To end two World Wars.
At the many Cenotaphs
Poppy Wreathes are laid
With two minutes silence
And National respect is paid.
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Categories:
cenotaphs, memorial day, remember, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
The Cenotaphs Inscription
...The Cenotaphs Inscription
David J Walker
And when you find your path
To heaven
Looking back is not an option
Navigation flowing through
The heart
Reason set apart
from the gross
R...
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Categories:
cenotaphs, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
No Reason To Die
...Black Oil (A Sonnet)
A first world country loads its planes with death encased in steel,
Sent to rain its deadly load on innocents and old.
A politician’s pride at stake, because he said he would;...
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Categories:
cenotaphs, political, remembrance day, war,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Unleashed
...Every face of horror I have witnessed
and turned in the blood pit of terror
and lay claim from some sanctimonious armchair
a cause
a reason
to despicable end
with such vile capacity
to bullets...
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Categories:
cenotaphs, abuse, prejudice, war,
Form: Free verse
Fallen Heroes
...Poppies lay on cenotaphs
for heroes that died in the wars,
they gave their lives for all of us
that's the reason, what they died for.
The fallen heroes lie
in every one of our hea...
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Categories:
cenotaphs, art,
Form: Rhyme