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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 ...

Categories: commemorations, death, farewell, fate,
Form: Rhyme

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...

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

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...

Categories: commemorations, betrayal, death, farewell,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

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...

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 ...

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...

Categories: commemorations, poems,
Form: Terza Rima

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...

Categories: commemorations, community, dance, humanity, humor,
Form: Political Verse

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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