Tribute Remembrance Day Poems

A siren sounds and movement stops – 
Pedestrians stand still
While cars and buses hit the brakes
And silence reigns until

Another siren breaks the spell;
Two minutes to...

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I waited as tears
wallowed, how so can it be e'er
so, e'er different
tears are the depth of you
it empties from
the void
the absence
of them
I need them
in to...

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A day
That I’ll always remember
A very somber DAY
A very sad day
A day to ponder
A day to wonder
A day
Not like any other day
A very unusual day
A...

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A Poem Of WW1 
ANZAC Day 
25th April 2018

Let’s have at Johnny Turk
Winston Churchill said, 
We’ll secure the Dardanelles,
Keep our Russian trade fed.
His words so...

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APoem For ANZAC Day 
25 April 2015
 
One hundred years on and
Old enemies are now friends
So often the way of the world
After conflicts ends.
And that...

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Today, we celebrate the men and women 
The men and women who have served our nation. 
Served our nation to keep our freedoms intact 
Keep...

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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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Countless poppies now grow
Where men had once stood,
Or had peered from a dugout,
Or had hidden in a wood,
Where bullets had hailed and
Young lives were squandered,
As...

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Puffing languidly by blowing the whistle, there came 
the mementos of zig-zag meter gauged companion, 
The first consignment on the railroad track, locomotives shipped from...

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Faded words on a grave stone
So many years have since gone
Killed in Action in France in 1916
His grave was lost and can’t be seen

His name...

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A coward goes by
many names – a brave
man often has none;
an Unknown
with a cross…
body parts on a
battlefield – 
there is no sin
we do not share,
nor...

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Anzac Day 2020
By Jan Beaumont ©

As Anzac Day draws nearer and there's not so many left
Of those bright eyed boys who left their native shores
They were...

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Oh what a time.
I could spend on a dime.
Everything wine and cherry time.
Deep fellow of mine.
Oh it feels like a crime.
Here is Ten Dimes....

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