People Memorial Day Poems

By the river of no return
Where we sat
There we wait 
Remembering our homeland 

We were taken into captivity 
Requiring from us total submission 
How shall...

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People of many nations
Rallied to the cause
United in their effort
To end two World Wars.	
At the many Cenotaphs
Poppy Wreathes are laid
With two minutes silence
And National respect...

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Like thunderous bolts falling from the sky
My metal slugs make the ground bend
Causing streaks of red on a tally marker, I count

My use will never...

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To All Who Gave Their Lives

Far across the seas, they went, to keep this great land ….safe and free.
I was just a wee bit of...

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Many soldiers have died for the USA.
We're paying tribute to those people today.
When those soldiers died, it brought about plenty of sorrow.
They fought and died...

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We all know the reason Memorial Day came to be…
to honor and to mourn those who died to keep our country free.

I imagine most people...

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Memorial Day

To the many soldiers that fought for our freedoms
With arms and feet, pride and spirit
Marching in harmony
Marching with conviction
Marching where ever you were sent
Across...

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APoem For ANZAC Day 
25 April 2015
 
One hundred years on and
Old enemies are now friends
So often the way of the world
After conflicts ends.
And that...

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Diabetes is rampant here & there.
No organ in the body, does it spare.
All people with diabetes, we should scare,
About diabetes sequelae, without diabetes care.
And give...

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“Real leaders must be ready to sacrifice all for the freedom of their people.”

“A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would...

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(The UK Queen's Platinum Jubilee was in June 2022)


You're at Trooping the Colour now, Dominic.
Were we not friends when we were schoolboys?
You look so smart...

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Sing Broken Beyond Mankind


because I speak


                IN   

...

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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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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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When I was a boy I don’t think I understood the meaning of Memorial Day.
I knew people got together to commemorate...to remember...and to pray.

But I...

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