War Remember Poems

I was thinking of the last Dawn Service I took my mother to at the War Memorial on North Terrace, Adelaide…. Lest we Forget

ANZAC in...

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Freed from scorching Iraqi sands,
Healing was as painfully slow,
As watching cold molasses flow,
While remembering all I know.
But patience rewards its demands,
And I may ever hold...

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ANZAC Day 25/4/ 2024

This is a true story dedicated to the missing and the families of the missing of soldiers from the wars Australia has...

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Oh Man, where am I?
What caused this pain and why?
I desperately cannot live this insane life.
For the pain of memories brings in strife.

I grab my...

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Know your roots 
Sometime when you hear 
about the big population of Wayao 
in Eastern and Southern Africa 
with many kind chiefs 
and one king.
You...

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I couldn’t sleep last night
These times had me feeling not right
There were images swirling round 
And try as I might I couldn’t shake being down

So...

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Remember

The whistle sounded
For us to go
And we climbed over the hill
I heard the sound of gunfire
And all the world stood still

I turned and saw my...

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Each fold recalls our first thirteen territories—
   The first for the soldier’s life and those they defend.
The second for their hopes of heavenly...

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Russia pounds Bakhmut to dust in 2022
    Putin bombs and tortures civilians too
  Western diplomats warn, "Naughty, naught, shouldn't do!"
 ...

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The price of the worldwide peace
that we have already missed 
will absolutely be long term paybacks...

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Before I knew the day, the time
He’d die, 
I came home to him,
My little smile, knowing he’d
Be there, he was always there
Always aware I was...

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I am taking a trip to an antique store,                ...

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Fruits Of War's Futility, Death And Destruction

As glittering spit falls upon hot rocks
rare gemstones melt into a frigid sea
ailing ships lay about three fallen docks
hummingbird...

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I started out life as Anna Mae Bullock,                 ...

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American soldiers have given their lives
    in war after war after war after war
  Be they in the Army, in the...

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