Tribute 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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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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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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by Maxwell "Max" Sebastian Burchett

One Memorial Day made me consider
The many tombs to unknown soldiers,
In memoriam to the lost 
From wars then and now,
Unnamed ghosts.

Is...

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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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Your blood cries out to us
        beneath a benign grassy grave

     Yours was the...

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Ode to the fallen heroes
Who left their all
When duty call
Glanced at victory
At the expense of of their lives
Living children and wives
To restore honor and glory.
They...

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A Poem Of WW1 
ANZAC Day 
25th April 2018

Let’s have at Johnny Turk
Winston Churchill said, 
We’ll secure the Dardanelles,
Keep our Russian trade fed.
His words so...

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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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A bullet song,
Hands up,
We sing in memory of the deceased, 
We sing in memory of the miners,
Peaceful protesters demanding their rights,
Peaceful protesters seeking justice,
Living conditions...

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Love our enemies as ourselves
Let he who is without sin throw the first stone
Turn the other cheek
He who does wrong to the least of us
Does...

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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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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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We are the soldiers who have no voice
In war or peace, we have no choice
Yet we toil and fight alongside men
We do all we do,...

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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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