War Remembrance Day Poems

I was thinking of the last Dawn Service I took my mother to at the War Memorial on North Terrace, Adelaide…. Lest we Forget

ANZAC in...

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ANZAC Day 25/4/ 2024

This is a true story dedicated to the missing and the families of the missing of soldiers from the wars Australia has...

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I wrote this poem about the young men and boys of various countries who fought in the first world war . Forever Remembered.



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Being a Military of the Purple Heart member 
simply loving a Purple Heart recipient days 
can sometimes be very long seated with these 
brave men...

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war graves surround me
stretching into the distance
scarlet poppies grow*

eleven o’clock
on remembrance Sunday
cannon volley heard

all birdsong ceases
we bow our heads in silence
respecting war dead

red against the...

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Today I honour you
Your blues eyes and
What you’ve been through

I can’t even imagine
What you saw over there
Sometimes I get a glimpse
In a vacant stare

You tell...

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"We are the dead. Short days ago
We loved, felt dawn and saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved ...."

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Eleventh of November is armistice day
A day in the year where we remember
Remember what I hear you say
The sacrifice of many far far away

They fought...

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We remember

That night of horror
When the future was stamped and the cogs were slain
When the execution ground shone red with blood
The blood of the helpless...

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Armed with weapons to kill the enemy
Remember those who have died for your country
Many thousands throughout all the years
Individuals who survived still shedding tears
Stood on...

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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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When I feel not equal to people
Should I of not wished to be different from day 1
The wave of acceptance the wave of feeling of...

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Join up and enlist Kitchener said, the Army will be such fun
For King and country, make your mother proud son.
However life at the minute, it...

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You remember the mud blood and mosquitos
And the Agent Orange brought back as a memento
In your jungle greens at Vung Tau
Nui Dat  memories won’t...

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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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