Day Of Remembrance Poems - Poems about Day Of Remembrance

Today my thoughts are on Master Sergeant Joe D. my brother who was four years younger than me. Growing up Brother Joe was always the battler, he took no one’s “stuff” and was never a prattler. At twenty one I entered and Brother Joe came soon, to the Army’s ways Joe seemed to quickly attune. He rose to Master Sergeant in...

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They do not march now, but they still stand-- shoulder to shoulder in quiet granite lines. Each flag breathes like a memory fluttering in the hush between heartbeats. They are not just names, not just dates-- they are echoes of last letters, mud-heavy boots, songs sung beneath a foreign sky. We walk between them, heads bowed, and feel the weight of freedom we never had to earn. This silence is not...

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Eleventh of November is armistice day A day in the year where we remember Remember what I hear you say The sacrifice of many far far away They fought for freedom Did not die in vain Our lives would have changed Those survivors still suffer the pain The symbol is iconic A red poppy is worn This is a real topic To remember those who's...

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A Poem Of WW1 ANZAC Day 25th April 2018 Let’s have at Johnny Turk Winston Churchill said, We’ll secure the Dardanelles, Keep our Russian trade fed. His words so casually uttered May have had to be eaten Johnny Turk was well Generalled And not so easily beaten. The naval campaign to start Was, at a price, repelled, The following land invasion Was resisted and held. After...

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APoem For ANZAC Day 25 April 2015 One hundred years on and Old enemies are now friends So often the way of the world After conflicts ends. And that War To End All Wars Just laid the foundations For so many more. From Suvla Bay to Basra, To our modern days, The world remains ruled by Ever more aggressive ways. Do the shades of the...

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As Remembrance approaches this year Many an adult will shed a tear 2022 and casualties still fall Servicemen struggling to stand tall We think it's all about two world wars In reality it is about many many tours Those that fell in foreign lands We remember with marching bands Boots,medals and uniform done Stand on parade wait for the drum March of at a 30...

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THIS DAY OF REMEMBRANCE ON THIS DAY, MANY MANY PRAYERS ON THIS DAY OF JULY THE 4TH WORDS TO SAY THIS DAY. YEARS AND YEARS SOME TEARS AND TEARS JULY THE 4TH THINGS WENT FORTH....

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(The UK Queen's Platinum Jubilee was in June 2022) You're at Trooping the Colour now, Dominic. Were we not friends when we were schoolboys? You look so smart now, Dominic, guardsman, wrapped in the shining redness of that costume under your tall, beautiful bearskin cap. Recall that friendship, Dominic, those distant days at school? I saw your show on stage - those school plays,...

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Fields of France are filled with blood-red poppies Where also bloom the lily-white crosses: Each buried youth a seed, now bursting forth Into a stark white cruciform flower: Row upon row, rank after serried rank, A spiky grid overlying acre After acre in silent panoply, Swan-mute as stillborns, yet shrieking their pain. A century has failed to lay their griefs. But such...

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TUFF GONG-IAN MUNYWE FEB 06 1945-MAY 11 1981 PART 2 So we bring ‘Kaya’ now, is this love? Get up stand up, could you be loved. Liberation in Zimbabwe, we are yet to see this. This bad card, can easily yield war. Because these ‘crazy baldheads’, are still running amok. So we best plot our exodus, assured by the three little birds. Iron lion zion, one drop one drop. The deputy ran...

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The resources of India were medley, the areas were uncoiled from her posture. We were indifference, we homage to the dictators. But they ne'er venerable those words those were hard vintage for us, they set about the verb we started to loose our nerve. As they recovered their senses, the life of Indians became limp the narrow domestic walls were built the Indians were...

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There is a field that we all know That passed a torch where Soldiers go Those that fell fought to the end From that field they did ascend To look upon the light relay That made us free free this day Rest in peace we do remember This is done eleven November In a field that's now a lot Rows of cars I...

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Unnoticed, he blends into the grey park bench, eyes clouded and watering, permanent tears for friends lost in a trench not quite enough of a life-time ago. Will anyone acknowledge him? Smile at him? Say hello? How many people walk past without seeing? Are they afraid to take a look at their future being? Can see past hands on a walking cane,...

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Note: Every year the government sets aside a Day of Remembrance for the Holocaust. This year it is the first week of May. Please share this with everyone so that none of us or our children ever forget. They rounded us up one day in the rain Herded us into a cattle-car train We were...

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