Journey Memorial Day Poems

“MORE THAN HOPE”(written by: Michelle Lynn LeBlanc 11/01/2023)
Dedicated to my son, Jayden Donald LeBlanc
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You have given me More Than Hope
When hope was all I had
The...

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Kindness is priceless 
By Michelle Morris
06/05/2023

Kindness is priceless
Give it freely to all
Yourself and everyone
You meet on your journey

Our words hold great power
They can make or...

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I've turned fifty just today.
I feel I came just yesterday.
So many years have already passed.
And life has been so very fast.
I have achieved so many...

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Tears from the horse eyes are longer than a pane of glass
Tears from the horse eyes are  piercing the riders heart
He mounts the horse...

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THE BLACK TUESDAY
(Tribute to the Victims of the EndSARS Lekki Tollgate Massacre in Lagos, Nigeria; Tuesday, October 20, 2020)

Dark is the night,
Darker the soul,
Fathomless depths,
Stories...

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Calamities…
assaulted by the Memorial Day tsunami
drowned victims & floating cars--
appendix detonates during the Season of Hell
haplessly hospitalized in the UT-Austin medical zoo

Delusion of progress…
recovering in...

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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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A coward goes by
many names – a brave
man often has none;
an Unknown
with a cross…
body parts on a
battlefield – 
there is no sin
we do not share,
nor...

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Officially called Decoration Day
proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan
first observed on 30 May 1868
Waterloo N.Y. officially declared the birthplace
by President Lyndon Johnson...

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I’m trying my best to figure it out
 but i don’t know how to solve these problems with inadequate equations 
What happen when friends cared...

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Once I paused, with my dusty feet
Braving the heat, to cast a mournful look
At the fancy graves along cemetery street;
The erect old brown stones too...

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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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My brother is and will always be my Memorial Day
Of course I will always respect every warrior that fought let's say
My brother joined the Marines...

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The dawning of the sun 
And the cry of the ocean 
The blooded-like rays of the sunset 
Full of loneliness and casted by scarlet 

The...

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When I met her , a very old lady she was , yet inside lay a frightened child .
I felt my heart cry , I...

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