Anniversary Remembrance Day Poems

a maiden from Nazareth
fully human,never divine
in a stable did confine
brought forth a child-
human,Jesus,saviour..mine...

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First year came as a rude shock 
And the second still was like a dream 
Third was a reality
The gone is gone for good 
My...

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The Guildhall clock chimes
Eleven times this special day,
A great silence descends as
The two minutes tick away.
On parade at the Cenotaph,
An old man among old men
(Where...

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The old soldier, rheumy eyed and cold
Sits at attention in his wheelchair
Bemedalled chest heaving gently
Thinks of comrades not there.
Now just bones in cemeteries 
Some not...

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Oh, I remember...
A most painful anniversary. I'll never forget
Where I was that fateful September day.
I still vividly remember what I was doing
And exactly how I...

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Thoughts on this Remembrance Day.
I stood out on our veranda,
Just admiring the view.
The clock then stuck eleven
My thoughts, they drifted to you.
I don't know who...

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Pray Bapu1, we’re in plastic age,
Stay happy installed, tall on stage.  

Too bad, your birthday prayer meets,
Rows of stark chairs staring in rage,

If your...

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My mind is lost, but I am happy
The mirror sees differently, but I ignore
My favourite colours are mystery, isolation, and quiet
My favourite rhythms are softness,...

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the fate of humanity
                on a stake
a sacrifice
  ...

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It all happend 36 years ago today 
The date being april 24th of 1983 
Taking place on the highway 
Then quickly into eucalyptus tree 
The...

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REMEMBRANCE DAY
I never even knew you; I was born a long time after your sad death
But: I do know the future you gave me, with...

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You loved me, this I know
but then you had to go
and things were never quite the same again

On that January day
I kind of lost my...

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Four hundred years,
has it really been that long
My how time flies
when you’re singing captivity songs

2019 ... 
oh, just living in modern vexation
Dwelling in the midst...

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A hundred years on 
again hate echoes in words,
parting us and them....

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Give a Thought
Maybe you don't give a damn,
That is your free right.
Then please give a thought.
For those who, for you, fought.
Just so that you could...

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