Hate Memorial Poems

August 28th was a harrowing day,
The life of a black boy, taken away.
No justice was served to his killers,
The nation was shocked by his murder.

After...

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by Maxwell "Max" Sebastian Burchett

One Memorial Day made me consider
The many tombs to unknown soldiers,
In memoriam to the lost 
From wars then and now,
Unnamed ghosts.

Is...

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United 
By Rebecca Dominique Morris 

The worker bee is not just a sign
Its a representation of our community which terrorism will not undermine 
It's a symbol...

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To All Who Gave Their Lives

Far across the seas, they went, to keep this great land ….safe and free.
I was just a wee bit of...

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We all know the reason Memorial Day came to be…
to honor and to mourn those who died to keep our country free.

I imagine most people...

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The Killing Fields”
Stepping across these bodies
Makes me ill

Pools of blood stitched
In the soles of my shoes       

Body parts dripping...

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The table is old and worn
nicks and scratches 
its red plastic tablecloth left over from a forgotten Christmas
its holiday pattern worn and forlorn
many a Thanksgiving...

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We can never forget 9/11
We will forever remember such a date
A date that will live in infamy
A date that has everything in it:
Sadness, fire, death,...

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The eyes of the two men then raised and met,
   As they looked at each other in the night.
   The glowing...

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Reflections are divergent 
images composite
negatives of dreams 
an alternate stream. 

Calculations of precise reality reflected.
diverge and coalesce? In memories 
Stacked as photographs fade…

Reflections are divergent...

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Love our enemies as ourselves
Let he who is without sin throw the first stone
Turn the other cheek
He who does wrong to the least of us
Does...

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Death is no joke, nobody can laugh at it
Death is not a he or a she, death is an it
Death is different, death comes like...

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This is what it feels like
to be king for a day

The coronation would be
bullet hailed 
as an assassination holiday
Giving a princely speech for 
unity and...

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Stumble across the threshold of memory.
Into places unknown or unseen.
Revealed only in deepest of sleep. 
Clutching a candle flame, revelation!
A silken wax flows as flames...

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From the pages of a strangers life
I note how the seas are searene
Coming upon the Gas Stations glowing lights 
There in the distance it sits...

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