Patriotic Eulogy Poems

    His song swerved 
    suddenly
    missed the curve 
    and descended 
...

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A patriarch, legend, family man,
A moral compass,
An arc of proprietary leadership
With octopus creeping advancements
Inducing pomiferous effects
Africa’s epitome of
Struggle against racial oppression
The Great Madabe :
An iconic...

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Words fail me
illogic sickens our world
as we’re caught in the
dystopic distemper 
of our times.

The ice cube’s melting
the waters rising,
yet our house burning
as this ill wind...

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IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD...
WE SIT IN REIGNS
OF ONCE GLORIOUS DAYS.
A RULE OF RIGHTEOUS RAGE,
BUT THE KING IS DEAD
LONG LIVE THE PAIN.
WITH A BLADE...

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They will not forget 
to this they swear
neither will we ever 
get near the end of 
hearing of it all, I fear
So it's with the...

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Lower the flags to half mast,
America the Beautiful has been gutted,
Its word emptied of all meaning,
There is no jubilant throng singing,
“Glory, glory Hallelujah!”
Our nation’s heroes...

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The Day the Earth Stood Still
The First Tower
 
I’m dialing
my wife.
An airplane
has crashed through
my office wall.
Two stockbrokers
are carrying a torn and
shivering secretary 
to the broken
staircase....

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May I write of a company of homesick boys,
Though felling Hitler was in the back of their minds;
The loved their country to the fullest degree,
And...

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His passion to die for his nation
made death to flee in disarray...

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Duty called them
Duty has taken them...

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MY WOMAN 

Shout out to the woman in you
That strong and resilient spirit
Not many women are lucky to have been blessed with it
You're simply a...

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(Homage to the Kwanza River
 " Water mother " of Angola)


Largest and only Angolan
Art thou, O majestic Kwanza!

In the central highlands
We see thee rise in...

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THAT FRIGHTFUL DAY

It was a Tuesday,
The world was told.
Terror filled the skies,
Murder cold and bold.

Americans are secure,
Our world is safe, we said.
We work in total...

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—Memorial Day Elegy—

The grave site
where the men and women of patriotic spirit fought bravely 
in the battlefield and fell for glory of the nation, 
abandoned...

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THE LONG SHADOWS
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS





LONG SHADOWS INCH ACROSS SANCTIFIED SPACES
THE NAMES WILL BE THERE BUT NOT THE FACES
THEIR BRANCH WILL BE NOTED THE UNIT AS...

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