Long Verdun Poems

Three cousins played a “game’ of war
A map of Europe spread across the floor
No adults there to keep the score
As each of them wanted more and more

Three of four empires lay upon that map
As they...

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My mind wanders to the stillness of a field
 where wild asters used to stud the grass with blue
 I seem to hear the echo of a voice
 Lamenting over the vast stretches where my...

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If the day dawns at last that your heart bows to service,
acknowledges, longs to ‘pay forward’ past debts, I’ll praise God.
If you live Life of Grace (shown to people around you),
to mentors, your lovers, to...

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Your smile shines~
as the new morn breaks
upon wisteria water 
reflecting sunlight kisses 
on sleepy teal trees.

Your laughters echo~
upon the verdun leaves 
that radiate  a lilac shade 
as the sun goes up
like your eyes that...

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While general’s drink their claret wine,
In taverns far behind the lines
The English tommy spills another wine

On Flanders table, made from mothers pride
In front of guns in faltered stride
The sweet wine of youth seeps away,
Dragging dreams...

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Man
makes this
reality
It's up to you
test

Clarity comes well born to dawn
With an undying, insatiable rage, 
Gone are the times when love was ours 
That permitted a wit to gauge
Free men once said that time based lies
Do...

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orchidlike delicate petals ~
oozing in shades of  teal and admiral
are like dancing ballerinas
hailing for the first kiss of rain
whilst flaxen and golden grasses 
are softly cascading honey
flowing where your footsteps go.

ochre and mustard hues...

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The Unknown Warrior Comes Home
by Robert J (Bob) Moore © Nov.2018

From the battlefields on the Western front
four warriors, are going home
plain coffins covered by the flag
these warriors were unknown

One would be chosen, on this day
to...

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Moonscape
In the cemetery there are twelve thousand dead.
They fought and died for Paschendale.
Such slaughter took place.
One hundred and forty thousand Allies are missing.
Fighting and dying in a foreign land,
in a town that looks like a...

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Clarity comes well born to dawn
With an undying, insatiable rage, 
Gone are the times when love was ours 
That permitted a wit to gauge
Free men once said that time based lies
Do marketh and strengthen our...

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