Long Mccrae Poems
Long Mccrae Poems. Below are the most popular long Mccrae by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Mccrae poems by poem length and keyword.
We Are Canadian: As One We StandWe came from the beginning, shrouded mists of time and space,
And in this vast and northern clime each found our sacred place.
We were our country’s pioneers, the people of the land,
We lit the flame and...
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Categories:
mccrae, adventure, endurance, history, patriotic, pride, travel, western,
Form:
Rhyme
Courage of Youth, Battle of Ypres, Flanders FieldCourage of Youth, Battle of Ypres, Flanders Field
(A Tribute)
Tough as nails young man with a red right hand
red-fire and whiskey ran in his blood.
Courageous seed of vast and cold hard land
quick temper, power of a...
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Categories:
mccrae, conflict, death, fate, sorrow, war, world war
Form:
Sonnet
Where Poppies Grow
"We are the dead. Short days ago
We loved, felt dawn and saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved ...."
By _ Lt. Col. John McCrae (In...
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Categories:
mccrae, war,
Form:
Narrative
Remembrance Day In Canada
"We are the dead. Short days ago
We loved, felt dawn and saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved ...."
By _ Lt. Col. John McCrae (In...
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Categories:
mccrae, remembrance day,
Form:
Free verse
Like Red Tears Cascading
"We are the Dead. Short days ago.
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow.
Loved and were loved, and now we lie.
In Flanders fields. "
...
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Categories:
mccrae, history, war,
Form:
Free verse
In Flanders FieldsIn Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies grow;
Their roots reach down to twine amongst the bones,
The mouldering bones.
Each skull in grinning disbelief voices
Its eternal question, for what? And no answer comes,
No answer comes.
There are...
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Categories:
mccrae, anniversary, bereavement, betrayal, body, death, england, flower,
Form:
Blank verse
A Poem For PoetsHas there ever been a pen as sharp as when Whitman penned his captain dead?
Was anyone more right than when Thomas urged rage against the dying light?
Did you ever read a bigger thrill than Wadsworth’s...
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Categories:
mccrae, poems, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Color Coquelicot
Color Coquelicot
Blazing Coquelicot
paints famed Flanders Field Poppies
on battle-scarred land.
Honored too on coat lapels...
war symbol of remembrance.
Sandra M. Haight
~NA~
Premiere Contest: Kim's Color Splash
Sponsor: Kim Rodrigues
Judged: 07/14/2017
Rules: Write a Tanka or other brief poem using an...
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Categories:
mccrae, flower, history, inspirational,
Form:
Tanka
return to Flanders fields -
my brittle bones are like this fence, so built
on throes of horrors shrouded with the hilt
...
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Categories:
mccrae, history, loss, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Blood Masks the LeaBlood masks the lea, the blasted loam
upon whose breasts soldiers came home.
The earth, herself, held each to chest
the mist of sky killed with each breath
as ruined green became their tomb.
Men strafed by shells and...
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Categories:
mccrae, death, war,
Form:
Rondeau
PoetWords my mouth cannot find to speak
Flow from my pen with grace and ease.
Fated to the page, give me ink
To fight and battle with the quill.
With banners of beauty and truth
Facing, fearless, each hill I...
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Categories:
mccrae, beauty, fear, poets, sorrow, truth,
Form:
Free verse
Poppy DayJohn McCrae wrote a poem in 1915,
Called In Flanders Fields about his dead friend Alexis Helmer,
On May the third, after he had presided over his funeral,
Where graves spattered about the poppy field so beautiful...
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Categories:
mccrae, beautiful, bereavement, death, future, red, remembrance day,
Form:
Blank verse