Soldier Memorial Poems

o the vast lawns of white stones silent....as a sparrow
tends her new clutch

only in engraving they speak soldier's names....and
the wars they fell in

men and women...

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At five feet, five and a hundred and ten
The Marines said, “sorry, too small of a man.”
Yet he became greatest of World War men,
The Army’s...

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Eleventh of November is armistice day
A day in the year where we remember
Remember what I hear you say
The sacrifice of many far far away

They fought...

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The once battlefields of Flanders
Were soon clothed with Poppy red
Perhaps a natural reflection of 
All the blood that had been shed.
The War Cemeteries laid out
In...

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Glory to the Departed
by Maxwell "Max" Sebastian Burchett

I had to be free.
Now I am gone,
But remember me 
So freedom goes on.

Not an easy road to...

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Like thunderous bolts falling from the sky
My metal slugs make the ground bend
Causing streaks of red on a tally marker, I count

My use will never...

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Looking cool 
Wearing blue 
Fly through the air 
Wingman as their pair 
Patrolling the skies 
Ready to encounter bogey lies 
Like eagles they soar
On this...

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Sand and surf of Oahu.
Boogie boards and kids.
Feeling breathlessly safe.
Surrounded by friends -
strangers-in-arms safe.

Elsewhere in time and space
the beaches of Normandy
tell a different tale. Holding
their...

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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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For Memorial Day, 2023...


Rest now
The wind knows your name
It is heard in the song it sings to the stars
Now you can rest
And rest assured that...

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Your blood cries out to us
        beneath a benign grassy grave

     Yours was the...

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A covered bridge across a lake
Spanning decades without break
A steadfast soldier tried and true
Never querulous, sans ado

Yet those who trod across its planks
Never gave a...

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Victories fought and won through perils,
Enemies vanquished by the brave and strong.
Triumph earned through the will to win
Eager for Freedom’s flag to raise.
Rejoicing as liberty’s...

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There aint any angels in foxholes,
Jock Grey once said to me.
He was looking at a different scene
Than what we could both then see.

Just tension and...

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Say goodbye to Pretty Polly
The lass from the Co-op store
She went and joined the Army
And they sent her off to War 
Off to far Afghanistan...

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