Rose Remembrance Day Poems

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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Airplanes slammed into the North and South Towers,
horrible screams rose and pierced the smoky air;
sirens wailed, the airborne enemy had stricken twice
to afflict death upon...

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I’ve labored,
I’ve sowed, and watered
Now, I wait.

The sun shall rise,
My seed shall grow.
And the heavens shall open up,
To weep.

Bathing in the sun’s rays,
And rain from...

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9/11/2021  
Twenty years have past  
The memories strong
The tears still flow

Yes, I’ve gone and mourned the site; 
Placed a rose on an unknown...

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MY GARDEN

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All things God has made bright and beautiful,
He has made all creatures large and to the extremes smallest item,
He has made all things wise and...

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Shuddering sounds echoed over the battle front
Smoke rose from the cannon’s barrage of fire
Distal vision blunted from the bursting bombs
Cries of pain drowned out from...

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Sadness,
weeping’s thief,
leaving behind
the ghost of memory.

Sadness,
idle sound
of silenced
footfalls.

Sadness,
thorny stem
of tortured rose.

Sadness,
longing
for the loss
of loss.

Sadness,
soft prickly sting
of love’s
embrace.


2/9/2017

submitted to - Sadness – Poetry Contest...

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Recruit Division

I never applied to join the Army, a nice man phoned me,
He said I was the type they liked, with a steel certainty,
Plus he...

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The reading of Villon poems at West Berlin’s Free University, Winter Semester 1957-58
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Painted on a plaque above the doorway
Reads Mr. and Mrs. darcy come on in
 There’s a red rose in a glass case on a mantle
And...

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