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Mccrae Poems - Poems about Mccrae

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Premium Member 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 Flanders Field) 1915 ______________......Read the rest...
Categories: mccrae, remembrance day,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member We Are Canadian: As One We Stand
...We 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 fl......Read the rest...
Categories: mccrae, adventure, endurance, history, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Clerihew Mccrae
...Soldier/poet John McCrae his words remembered to this day On days of Remembrance his verse both scan&dance......Read the rest...
Categories: mccrae, people, poetry,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member 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. " Quote......Read the rest...
Categories: mccrae, history, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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 Flanders Field) 1915 ________________......Read the rest...
Categories: mccrae, war,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member A Poem For Poets
...Has 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 Wad......Read the rest...
Categories: mccrae, poems, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
In Arms
...In Memorial to All: And John McCrae Every man has to die In time It always will be To begin, to end Is the way It must be Torn, beaten, we live In time Is for us to be So many diffe......Read the rest...
Categories: mccrae, humanity, sad, world war
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poet
...Words 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, ......Read the rest...
Categories: mccrae, beauty, fear, poets, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member return to Flanders fields -
... my brittle bones are like this fence, so built on throes of horrors shrouded with the hilt of war's inanely senseless blade, now dulled by all the precious soul......Read the rest...
Categories: mccrae, history, loss, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Winkers Are Not Soldiers, Yet We Die
...[with apologies to Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae] We are the winkers! Short days ago, We played all night, until dawn's glow, Squopped and were squopped: for here we go In the Fields of Winks,......Read the rest...
Categories: mccrae, death, flower, games, humor,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Courage of Youth, Battle of Ypres, Flanders Field
...Courage 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 q......Read the rest...
Categories: mccrae, conflict, death, fate, sorrow,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member 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. Haig......Read the rest...
Categories: mccrae, flower, history, inspirational,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Blood Masks the Lea
...Blood 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. ......Read the rest...
Categories: mccrae, death, war,
Form: Rondeau
Poppy Day
...John 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 f......Read the rest...
Categories: mccrae, beautiful, bereavement, death, future,
Form: Blank verse
In Flanders Fields
...In 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......Read the rest...
Categories: mccrae, anniversary, bereavement, betrayal, body,
Form: Blank verse

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