Heaven Memorial Day Poems

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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WARS ARE MADE BY MEN (Satis Shroff)

When you walk in the streets of Freiburg
Or any German town in the East or West,
You see lovely, innocent...

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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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Atomic payback made impact dramatically 
Physics split minute energy into mammoth 
Allied forces warned Hiroshima, Nagasaki
Destroyer of worlds, Now I become death

Military master, Japan, thought...

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The river you need is just beneath if you can dig below
The money you sole desire is just inside of you only if You can...

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Athenian Epitaphs

Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be,
but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.
—Michael R. Burch, after Plato

Does my...

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Dear Brother,

How I wish I could have known you, you wanted to be, the brother with life so planned, so carefree not these memories of...

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Author Dana Redricks 
June 29, 2019 

In memory of my Mamma 
Although we went through 
a lot you meant the world to 
to me 
I...

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MARRIAGE

Conjugal happiness, blissful memories
A woman's dream, a man's fear
The assumed long-term institution
To some, it's a must
For many, it's an option
If only the almost newly wedded...

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Their years have slowly slipped away,
Our nation’s heroes with heads of grey
Once strong bodies, now weathered and weak,
‘tis’ the solitude of grave’s-rest, they seek.

Willingly went...

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You were in my dreams
appearing every evening 
for seven long years
until one day I met you
and that changed my life

when you walked into life
stepping out...

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Who will shirk me of this load 
The garment so heavy I'm weak
Heaven in cry, world in bleak
Like wet rag, cloth I wear
The sorrow, the...

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Under the heavenly stars, our children 
Lay inside our hearts, on raw emotions,  
sleeping with threadbare nights of pain,
Watch dark clouds making daily devotions....

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Have you ever thought what will happen?
Live in present and enjoy the heaven
The happy time of the school day
That will never return from its way
Here...

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Memories of Them On Memorial Day

So many had died from war's long struggle
Over silent graves hear sound of a bugle
While tombstones will exist row after...

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