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The Tree
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Christy Edgley
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remembrance day, earth, friendship love, remembrance
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Eleventh of Everything
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Vaughan Wesley
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freedom, remembrance day, veterans
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Letter to the churches VI
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LIde Sangtam
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remembrance day, bible, christian, god, gospel,
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Casualty Lists
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Paul Warren
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remember, remembrance day, war,
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Crimson Dawn
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Brooke Bowers
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anniversary, farewell, remembrance day,
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Remembrance
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David Horne
| Blank verse |
death, memory, remembrance day,
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A Day Of Weeping
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Dear Heart
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remembrance day, how i feel, remembrance
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Thankful Streams of Thought
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Winged Warrior
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hero, remembrance day, war,
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Poppy Day Pride
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Ceinwen Tidley
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memorial day, remembrance day,
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The Trench
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John Steward
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death, remembrance day, war,
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The Forgotten Soldier
by Indiana Shaw
The Forgotten Soldier
Clickety clack - clickety clack; the train trundled on empty stations of an old past
Lightweight in its endeavours - portraying its only passengers...
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appreciation, remembrance day, world
The Centenary of Remembrance
by Edward Clapham
The Centenary of Remembrance
The ranks of sunflowers follow the contours
Of the vale, marching across to the ridge in
The distance. Roots reach down into...
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remembrance day, world war
Plastic Poppies
by D.W. Rodgers
They’re closing the downtown
Legion soon, taxes are too high,
what with gentrification and
only a few of the regulars are vets.
The younger associates,...
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remembrance day,
I Remember
by Trevor McLeod
The soldiers gathered at the wreath I remember.
The coffin covered just beneath I remember.
The poppies at the corner store I remember.
The amputees the coins were...
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remembrance day, war,
And then they died
by Dave Timperley
And then they died
The trenches filled with blood and mud,
Fear filled eyes and prayer tipped lips,
Each man shoulder to shoulder with his brother.
Wondering how this...
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remembrance day, war, world
For the Fallen in Flanders Field
by John Michaels
Famished and flagging footsoldiers;
facing fatigue, fitful fever,
faeces and foul, foetid fungi.
Fostering feelings, frustrated,
for this faraway, foreign field.
Forays so fraught with fine failure;
forfeiting furtive and fiendish,
fatally...
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remembrance day, conflict, death, history, remembrance
Saddling up anyway
by Paul Warren
His hands shook as he sat
On the side of the muddy shell ridden road
He had the makings of a cigarette down pat
But the shaking...
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remembrance day, war,
Love letters kept
by Paul Warren
Love letters
His love letters she kept in a shoe box
Tattered now tied in ribbon lots
That she takes them out when she’s blue
And she feels there...
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remembrance day, war,
For the Fallen in Flanders Field - Original
by John Michaels
Famished and flagging footsoldiers;
formerly fitters and farmers.
Facing fatigue, fitful fever,
faeces and foul, foetid fungi.
Fostering feelings, frustrated,
for this faraway, foreign field.
Forsaking fissures and furrows,
forced forwards with...
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remembrance day, conflict, death, history, memorial,
Salute them too
by Neil Andrew Hornby
Salute them too.
As that old clock struck six, on that cold Winter's morn.
An unjust bullet ripped through his tunic bloodied, tattered and torn.
They said he...
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remembrance day, abuse, dark, death of
Fields of red of Poppy leaf
by John Steward
Fields of red, of poppy leaf
The fields where so many brave came to grief
Brave men indeed who refused to kneel
To give freedom to others,...
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remembrance day, war, world
How did you stay
by Paul Warren
How did you stay
Day after day
With the stench of death
Taken in with each breath
When the mud seeped in
Like cold porridge knee deep again
And the guns...
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remembrance day, war, world
Proudly Displayed
by Paul Warren
An old soldier was sitting on a park bench
When I happened to stop and rest awhile
He said I’m getting weary of these days
As I see...
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remembrance day, war, world
1918 - 2018
by Lisle Ryder
A hundred years on
again hate echoes in words,
parting us and them....
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remembrance day, anniversary, conflict, history, remembrance
Veterans Day in US - Remembrance Day in CDN - Eleven Eleven - Part One
by Elaine George
My name is Garfield Edward George, better known as (Gap). I was born on the 26th day of March in the year 1921 in the...
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remembrance day,
Veterans Day US - Remembrance Day in CDN - Eleven, Eleven - Part Two
by Elaine George
I wrestled with my conscience for some time as I watched more and more able man from our town enlist in the navy. I spent...
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remembrance day,
Changed
by Dave Timperley
Changed.
We see our loved ones go off to fight,
Pray they stay safe both day and night.
He marched away to go to war,
Leaving behind, his wife...
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remembrance day, war, world
Stand Down
by Dave Timperley
Stand down
In his bedsit he sits and waits.
Tears fall as he remembers his mates.
In his bedsit alone and forlorn,
No one notices the curtains undrawn.
In his...
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conflict, courage, remembrance day,
Praying
by MAHTAB BANGALEE
Pure in each action
Inside and outside feels free
For presence of GOD
-November 01, 2018 Chattogram...
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god, remembrance day,
Time to leave
by Sheree Keeley
You yell at me and say im dumb , you laugh at me like im no one.
You pick me up after you knock me down...
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remembrance day, abuse, anxiety, depression, remembrance