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Commemorations Poems - Poems about Commemorations


Premium Member The Cold Embrace of Death
...Though the sun had begun bleeding in the West With an explorer’s gait, I walked jumping over gutters My track, flanked with knee high grass and nettles Also, wild bushes of all kinds that grew in ......

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Categories: commemorations, death, farewell, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Blazer’s Put Away
... The Blazer’s Put Away The blazer’s put away now, The medals in their drawer; The polished shoes and formal tie Back where they were before. Commemorations over, Reu......

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Categories: commemorations, memory, military, remembrance day,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Mocking the Dead
...Here I stand before hundreds of moss grown graves There is a mournful silence that extends Through the weed grown path, no traveller walks The place, some morbid warning portends Hu......

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Categories: commemorations, betrayal, death, farewell,
Form: Rhyme
Heart Locket of Gold
...Her grandfather gave her a heart locket. When opened it revealed a little pocket that held a picture of him and her and she had vowed to wear it forever. Held true to her word for sixty-five ye......

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Categories: commemorations, family,
Form: Rhyme
The Root of Evil Vs the Bad Seed
...3/27/2018 Spit shined black dress shoes, badges and keys. The childlike fear of figures of authority. Condescending tone, vocal depth, glacial stare Standing upright, hovering over ......

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Categories: commemorations, anxiety, children, corruption, fear,
Form: Rhyme



Cupid Commemorations
...Love, more than a once a year compliment Remembered with other ember members at Valentine When red reigns supreme to cement Signals in Sentiment City all’s fine Although a lover’s lilt longs f......

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Categories: commemorations, poems,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Same Ol' Song and Dance
...As I look back across more musical times of rhythmic reflections, ceremonies and commemorations of each dawn and dusk eremitic liturgy, if that is not an oxymoron of sound and sight, song and d......

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Categories: commemorations, community, dance, humanity, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Advocating Patriotism For Earthlings
...It is not patriotic to desecrate a flag or even denigrate a nationalistic anthem celebrating a war-torn patriotic flag. Yet is it even anti-patriotic to refuse to bow to it, the flag, that is......

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Categories: commemorations, culture, games, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Ashurah
...(Every year in the lunar month of Muharram we Shia Muslims commemorate the brutal martyrdom of the grandson of our Holy prophet Muhammed (s.a.w) and his family and friends at the hands of fake hypocr......

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Categories: commemorations, history, islamic, remembrance day,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Unforgettable
...Each season does progressively come and goes And at times clouds do scatter or form together. Nothing can sooth one's heartfelt bliss and woes As the mind travels memory lane to what it has grown ......

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Categories: commemorations, courage, dedication, eulogy, history,
Form: Sonnet
Christmas Gifts
...a sonnet/acrostic C Commemorations of a Savior’s birth H have always been a focus and a blur. R Recalling cost which does not count for worth, I I mention gold and ......

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Categories: commemorations, appreciation, christmas, giving, introspection,
Form: Sonnet
Athens Shall Burn For the 3rd Time
...The three hundred shall perish again, As history repeats itself. Although this time, it may only be 297. My mother was possessed by the God, Apollo, On the 21st the new Oracle of Delphi is crowned. A......

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Categories: commemorations, history, philosophy, visionary,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things