Loss Memorial Day Poems

Author
                 Ste.phen ambrose
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The passage of time has not changed anything 
Neither has it erased all that has been
I go down memory lane
I'm swathed by loss and pain


September...

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Death is no joke, nobody can laugh at it
Death is not a he or a she, death is an it
Death is different, death comes like...

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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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Hectic day, the device beeped incessantly:
Salient, superficial, attended all, not to skip, 
the vital  from the plethora of logs. 

Voices buzzed  interminably :...

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Cheers to the lost,
the fallen and gone.

Cheers, the best I can say today
of that the endless, final cost.

Cheers, all I have in me today
after missing...

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Memorial Day 
mother nature’s reckoning 
is gain worth such loss
de-constructing life with limb
Collision course toward ourselves











05/29/2021...

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A Memorial Day tradition,
honoring those that have died.
Their selfless, determined mission,
was carried out with pride.

The price of freedom is high.
The cost, the loss of life.
The...

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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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Today held many a smile, wide ones,
blazing under the cloudless heavens.
I put off thoughts of the date -
those musings are for the evening.

Today held my...

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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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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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Brutality

Ambushed outside a village
some of the enemy were killed
their bodies tied to our tracks
to drag back trough the village
there to stay as a warning;
our unit...

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PTSD

My nightmares are violent;
rifle jammed frustratingly dead,
broken stock useless as a club,
only a k-bar knife and free hand
reaching for those darting figures
leaping over my fighting...

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