Farewell Hero Poems

In seventeen sixty nine a child was born
in Corsica, Genoa's former vassal state.
Prior to his birth, his land had been war-torn,
Paoli's resistance did his birth...

Read More

Oh! Arise the Soldiers of Heaven
Oh!! Arise the Soldiers of Heaven
Oh!!! Arise the Soldiers of Heaven

A losing Israel in the hands of the captivator
Sings and...

Read More

While his presidential jet idled on the runway
Many good people came to mourn
Oh,
A troubled American nightmare had woken
On that day when they murdered John
It was...

Read More

Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

Read More

Cautious adjudication, the gravitas of soft-spoken word.
Your legendary legacy, illustrious and exalted.
Advocate for gender justice, legal insights not always heard.
Yet, your jurisprudence was seldom persuasively...

Read More

"All night long the northern streamers
Shot across the trembling sky:
Fearful lights, that never beckon
Save when kings or heroes die." - William Edmondstoune Aytoun

  ...

Read More

When I go
please
do not drape me over
with some piece of tarnished cloth
some flag of esteem 
who’s dignity has been lost
and long forgot

Please
do not weep for...

Read More

*Image of David and Saul issued by Public Domain as it was published or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office before January 1, 1926.
Saul's Spite...

Read More

There was a very special date,
Back in 1922 on December 28.
Upon this date a hero of heroes was born,
Into a world already torn.
For you see,...

Read More

A time when only a few dared to fight
against a foreign tyrant,
A Poet rose to speak

Oppressions suffered by Filipinos
in his writings, he revealed
A Poet with...

Read More

Pulling back the curtain is a long man in bed still and quiet.
A quirky, quiet, humble, loner that shared this world with me briefly.
Seeing him...

Read More

Hero
                        ...

Read More

Their years have slowly slipped away,
Our nation’s heroes with heads of grey
Once strong bodies, now weathered and weak,
‘tis’ the solitude of grave’s-rest, they seek.

Willingly went...

Read More

You stole my heart and lit a fire
You drown my soul with some ease of power

Though fighting them now night and day
The thought of you...

Read More

On my shield I back tonight
No one cries about this loss
We have passed the final fight
In the field a front Hell’s doors.
 
I have lost...

Read More