Commemoration Poems - Poems about Commemoration

May your annual commemoration of the winter solstice with one of the Earth's poles at its maximum tilt from the sun be abundant with innumerable manifestations of felicity friends good food and fun and may the next full circuit of the ecliptic engender a propensity toward bestowing plenteousness too and may unparalleled prosperity be forthcoming and settle like snowflakes gently upon you ...

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You are a commemoration. You remind me of a once happy moment. When everything else did not matter, When for some time I felt a little bit better All the words I thought you meant. All the breathtaking texts you sent. When you were there, when I required an ear. During the times I thought your love was clear, and your voice was...

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Blown Fuse I won’t be parading to honour the dead. Something’s gone pear-shaped inside my head. All the guilt and confusion that have built through the years Have blown out the fuse in the space ’tween my ears. I don’t know the reason, can’t explain why it’s so. All the rest are parading, but me? I can’t go....

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We can never forget 9/11 We will forever remember such a date A date that will live in infamy A date that has everything in it: Sadness, fire, death, destruction and bravery Heroism, sickness and resilience, except happiness 9/11/2001 is a memorable and a daring date That changed the world. Things are not seen like The day before. We have a different perspective About...

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We commemorate the death of our love ones We don't celebrate the death of our love ones Today is not a great day Today is a very sad day We don't care about wealth, avarice, money and cupidity We abhor hate, greed, hatred, racism, and police brutality Today, we don't care about the economy Today, we want to eradicate greed, bigotry Racism, division,...

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I have been reading her poetry for so many years that I lose count She is a Norwegian woman with a great capacity for great poetry Ever since I've known her she has proven to be a positive influence on this site, spreading nothing but good will and encouragement. It saddened me when I noticed...

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Like footprints paved in the snow in the driveway coat- ed by fresh blankets of white descending snow flakes in the morning, I know they are still there. Like the trees bright with vibrant leaves fall- en by winter and flowers kissed by butterflies replaced with dull grass, I know they still bloomed there. Like unexpected, unprotect- ed surprises grow; I will never...

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Clinger to the stars Pulled down by gravity Beneath are sparrows Squeeze me to become the warrior Blindfold me with the darkness Faze me with pretensions Shower me with Benjamin Dry me with ignorance Kill me with your vocabulary I’ll bury me with thoughts of you Let me wear your ring Wear my weary We let the seed grow I water it with tears Your sunlight is paper We failed Throw...

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Commemoration In my commemoration they were standing on my grave I was onlooker to them far from eternal base Claps by the hands offer of garlands Shaking neck side by side a note of publish in some face Women and men most of them were contemporary saints Among colleagues only few were chewing gums I wished to pour down myself in the...

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From Topeca County To Maryland and back Thurgood spoke to the little flock ...

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Delicate purity Softly pallid None akin Of affection and beauty Chilling Seraphic tears Wept Sodden snippets Of yesterdays Monochrome Reminders Without order Devolving back To nothingness Amorous and beautiful But so cold...

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