Sea Remembrance Day Poems

Upon departure of the founding fathers and their ardor 
Their sons, harboring a love for the carnal self, 
Hastily waste the blood of slain martyrs...

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My dad loved sailing. He sailed so many times with mum before my siblings and I were born. Paternity didn’t slow him down. He still...

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Amos made a promise, took a sip of wine,
Poured his heart out and he bowed his head.
Pledged to come back safely as Evangeline
Shed a tear...

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A breeze gently kisses my face
As I stand silently in an empty place
Words remembered drift across time
Memories of them that were mine

A sea of faces...

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On a breezy afternoon I walked at Semaphore
As the gulls were wheeling and forever squawking near the beach’s shore
And I walked up to the white...

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POEM " 11 ELEVEN 11" by martin gedge

Take this moment and close your eyes
and bow your heads in prayer
remember those who stood on guard
whose hearts...

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The British Empire was built by fate
made rich advanced to stand up straight 
Have knowledge and allies to collaborate 
prevent Europe a Russian satellite state

Hitler...

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Some came by air
Some came by sea
They fought and died
So we could be free

The 6th of June 1944
Normandy a place in France 
Operation Overlord or...

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Amidst the moonlit night,
we sit hand in hand...
Your eyes give away your plight,
In a silent world, we stand...

Your charming face looks grim,
and why would it...

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wonder wonder what we’ll do when the sky becomes not free
wonder wonder what life would be if we hid and flee
wonder wonder where we’ll go...

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Of all the best, there’s many at rest
What matters most, they stood their post
They are the brave, they did not waive
To those who serve, such...

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Their wool uniform rubbed skin raw.
The lice infections irritated more.
Their sodden feet and rotting toes,
and all before they met their foes.

But I will not grieve...

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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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A soldier that served in the last Great War
Is remembered in stone and in wood,
One of thousands who died and had to endure
What no man...

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Blood Red Poppies

There's a field far away where the poppies grow wild
A sea of blood red drifting in the breeze
They swoop and they swell like...

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