Long Day of remembrance Poems

The sun was rising high in the east over the town of Milton creek
It was the eighteenth day of December, the start of Christmas week
All the store fronts were decorated; it was a colourful sight...

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Memorial Day – 2024... origin of holiday

Strong and brave men and women 
gave their level best
crème de la crème 
strongest and bravest
leaving grieving significant others 
with emotional agony 
within treasured chest
o'er the redoubt  
the...

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The crumbling down of the Berlin Wall finally 
ended the Cold War as a defiant Reagan challenged
Gorbachev as his famous words were spoken mightily, 
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear it down!"...And he shouted them with rage, 
while...

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Rosh Hashshana 2023

Began at sunset 
on Friday, Sept. 15, 
and ends at sunset 
on Sunday, Sept. 17.

No matter yours truly an atheist, 
I consider myself 
fascinated with my Semitic ancestry
(maybe unwittingly genealogically 
linkedin with unsuspecting...

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Who could forget what happened on that unsuspecting and sunny day,
when no visible clouds drifted over the Twin Towers?
Little after midnight, the cool rain adds to the melancholy 
of the descending angels; and I join...

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No matter yours truly an atheist, 
I consider myself fascinated with my ancestry
x cited regarding: upcoming
Jewish holiday fast approaching 
by the bewitching hour which doth hold key
to Chamber Of Secrets to – me
analogous being Sorcerer's...

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Memorial Day – 2023... origin of holiday

Strong and brave men and women 
gave their level best
crème de la crème strongest and bravest
leaving grieving significant others 
with emotional agony within treasured chest
o'er the redoubt the the...

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As the two of them relaxed in the sun
Having moments of fun
Spoken kind words always to each other.

Memories of over decades
As they both rise in the sun
A long-lasting marriage
Another day has begun
Not once spoken of...

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Memorial Day – 2020... since time immemorial

crème de la crème strongest and bravest
forsook their lives eternal peace they rest
honored and revered succumbed mortal test.

(now pardon ma faux pas 
from dis po' pa try'n 2b sleek)
line...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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From the eyes of Shangri-la and words indited in bulletin
spoken by  bellwethers and imagery on broadcasts
Felt the passing of breaths and federation menace.

The scourge abided by cause of hooliganism
By a group of libertine, 
Held,...

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In essence the unconscious mind,
   Reveals all knowledge for mankind.
   To pursue dreams, each vision brings,
   Then soar above the earth on wings.
   We navigate uncharted shores,
...

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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...

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Officially called Decoration Day
proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan
first observed on 30 May 1868
Waterloo N.Y. officially declared the birthplace
by President Lyndon Johnson in May 1966.

though two score and ten plus years since...

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During an early stroll, did you notice a bird leaving his nest
in search of his pretty mate? But he will not wander off
more than a mile, if the first raindrop lands on his crest;
morning after...

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~Praying For Love~
 (Linked)


 Praying for Love
 P
 Love, in this world
 R
 World  Lord can change
 A
 Change with His love
 Y
 Love, hope, peace,  brings
 I
 Bring in all hearts
 N
...

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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...

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“The Nazi’s had no value of life,
They neither understood it, 
Nor did they reckon it merited any value,” 
My dad objectified at the table, 
One Remembrance Sunday, 
When I was young. 

Although November the 11th,
Was...

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Pairs of boots sit empty
They no longer wear a shine
For they now are covered
With blood, dirt, and grime

The owners always knew
They could lose their life in war
Still they stood tall and proud
When their oath they...

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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...

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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...

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On this day of remembrance,
To give thanks for what we own,
Many are much more somber,
And sadness is the tone.

I can sit here and ponder,
All that I don’t have,
Or choose to put on joy,
Like an ancient...

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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...

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