Patriotic Memorial Day 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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    His song swerved 
    suddenly
    missed the curve 
    and descended 
...

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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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WE Honor You Today

To all of our US vetrans
far and near 
we thank you for your service
for all of those years

You sacrificed your time
 and...

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The ones who survived their wars put on their uniforms to march
We gather at the bandstand under the Memorial Day arch
The fallen somehow know, and...

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I remember Memorial Days from long, long ago
In the mountains, there was still a chance of snow,
But we took our flowers to the old cemetery
Where...

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On the last Monday in May,
once called “Decoration Day,”
flags will fly half-mast till noon,
then at full till dusk. The tune
“Taps” will play and stir our...

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               WE REMEMBER



We are neither Communist nor Socialists.
We are Americans, living...

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Marilyn Ann Francis
Admin
  · May 15, 2012  · 
THEIR SLEEP'S A STORM
ARMED FORCES DAY
MAY 19TH.
> Sleeping in a muddy trench.
> Our heroes breathing...

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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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Memorial Day..2020

In which
We perceive the divisions
Reinforcing our lifelong
Beliefs in separation as
The reality of our lives..
Flowers on gravestones
Solemn speeches in
Patriotic fervor..marking
Wars by participants who
Assumed without question
These...

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End of May has come again 
Thinking about pushing the button to send 
Containing a message stating destruction 
But we know how to rebuild with...

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Sunshine rose earlier today, season of warmer weather
Rain and sun tempo touching soil and earth,
Vernal equinox weeks ago bring time of growth and renewal
Spring alive...

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Historical Outlaws

What, are you talking about? 
I am saying that we have a past. 
It is full of guns, and law, 
and law breakers. 
It...

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Americans are Americans, period.
No matter color, sex and for heavens, sake!
Not ....Their "party affiliation,"
On which some are insanely fixated.

We were born au natural.
We were not...

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