Sad Memorial Day Poems

A day
That I’ll always remember
A very somber DAY
A very sad day
A day to ponder
A day to wonder
A day
Not like any other day
A very unusual day
A...

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On May 1, 1865, Charleston, South Carolina, 
Freed African Americans held a parade of 10,000 
In honor of 257 dead Union soldiers, 
whose remains they...

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Time of the year when poppies bloom
Turning the flowering meadow scarlet
Reminds of a famous poem of gloom,
Time of the year when poppies bloom
In Flanders Field...

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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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Born of the blood of heroes... shed,
They are watching devoted near the graves,
Dressing up the altar of those who now are dead,
Dancing free in the...

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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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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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I went back to the farm seeking Maggie, only to find that she had gone.
Searching for shelter from the storm.
Another sad eyed lady, laid low,...

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The tears you shed for a fallen brother,
in grief, in pain, and in memoriam -
the look in the eyes of his mother.

The light revealed through...

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My sergeant said you've been trained well you know what to do
Your assignment an ambush, do not return until the sky is blue.
We gathered our...

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Sometimes it seems
like it was a series of dreams-
that day when I wore that dress of white
and the world had finally felt so right 
then...

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A bent knee ...

Cloaked in black nylon, a briny drop from
The smooth cheek, contingent baptism
For a closed hand, it's precious cargo,

Now consecrated by circumstance and
Fate,...

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I finished high school four months prior to my 18th birthday. By this time, my country was heavily engaged in the Vietnam war.  I...

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A Century have days gone by
Since you last saw the sun did rise,
Embattled weary and forlorn
Another push for King and all.

You’d seen smiles and tears
Dreamt...

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ANOTHER MEMORIAL DAY

I think of those who lost their lives on battle fields below
And how we ought to pay respect and to them honor show.
And...

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