Sorry Memorial Poems

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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Attracted to the phone screen .
The password is required. 
No facial scan to unlock only a password could be entered. 
Still trying ...
Someone wants to...

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Slode's new poem: Bug-man
Tarantula 
Phantom motion seeking assembled characters
Catatonic semi-demonic the fervent priorities
Damned by honesty and crowned the duke of chill
Something happy 
how fast a...

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You were loved by everyone 
By Michelle Morris
23/11/2022

It's been a while since we spoke
And I miss you every day
I'm struggling with your absence
And my world...

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of an dying autumn day.
The gentle breeze tosses
scarlet leaves before him.
…into the ember fire sky 

His thoughts drift,
a familiar voice is heard talking near.
…speaking of...

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watch the heavenly forms fall 
a body in motion a remains in devotion 
how odd, held in time 

in the shafts of light sliced though...

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Cowardly terrorists caused many people a great deal of sorrow.
On September 11, 2001, 2,996 people would have no tomorrow.
Many people died because a few planes...

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Here I sit...
Behind steering wheel.
My back is numb
My head reels.
Cars pass me left and right
Ribbons of crimson taillights 
Leave traces behind my eye
Deep in my...

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Sitting under the willow tree
on a hot and gray day 
just passing the evening away 
delicate sounds of thunder 
rumble far far away
watching the winds...

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Memorial Day 2021 – Apology
By Franklin Price
05/31/2021

World War Two's the last war that we really fought to win
If we had to do it over, we...

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I wanted to write
 The best slavery poem   ever written—
Perhaps win a Pulitzer or Faulkner. 

I had every intention of conforming 
To the...

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His soul watches in absolute silence,
As the stream of mourners visit his grave,
Offering their heartfelt condolences,
To his grieving widow, asking her to be brave.
His dead...

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Thank you for your service and your ultimate sacrifice.
You wore that badge with honor always willing to pay the price.
Your family must be proud of...

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I couldn't see your struggles, or perhaps I missed a sign.
I wish I would've noticed, noticed you weren't fine.
You laughed with me the day before...
And...

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Energy Exchange
Oh how sorry I am
To concentrate on the wingman
Who crashed on the hillside
The crash that killed Frederick
For three and a half decades I waited

To...

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