Holiday Memorial Poems

His name was Paul Reubens but many people knew him as Pee-Wee.
He was a famous entertainer and he lost his life at the age of...

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If my father never made it home,
I wouldn’t have been born,
Yet so many soldiers’ families,
Through the years, have been forlorn.

Every service member suffers,
For the ones...

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Your blood cries out to us
        beneath a benign grassy grave

     Yours was the...

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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...

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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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Tonight I’ll light some candles
For some people who have died,
A custom on the holiday
To which I will abide.

I’m not religious, but, to me,
A ritual like...

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On May 1, 1865, Charleston, South Carolina, 
Freed African Americans held a parade of 10,000 
In honor of 257 dead Union soldiers, 
whose remains they...

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On the last Monday in May,
once called “Decoration Day,”
flags will fly half-mast till noon,
then at full till dusk. The tune
“Taps” will play and stir our...

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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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Marilyn and Mom and Dad,
Uncle Aaron, Larry;
Helen, Irv, Frank, Jodi, Ruth,
Miriam and Harry.

Elaine, Barbara, Ann and May,
Muriel and Julie;
Nana, Grandma, Grandpas (2),
Rick – we miss...

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Suburban waste stretches beyond and far away
Languishes under the hot hazy sun
Seasons reap
Memories run
Remembering things better left unseen
Memories reel in the theater on the mind
Things...

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See the girls on the corner 
In tight tanks 
And micro minis
Popping gum
Locking eyes 
Driving boys wild
See the sunlight 
Outline their curls in gold
Memories of...

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When I was a boy I don’t think I understood the meaning of Memorial Day.
I knew people got together to commemorate...to remember...and to pray.

But I...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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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...

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