Memory Soldier Poems
These Memory Soldier poems are examples of Soldier poems about Memory. These are the best examples of Soldier Memory poems written by international poets.
The Bio-Wars: A Son LostA tumour abated alters and waits.
Pathway incised, a new one it makes.
Spreading and forming, roots growing down.
The moment’s now here, a mighty rebound.
Battle exhausted, the...
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Categories:
soldier, allegory, cancer, death, grief,
Echoes of a Silent Night: The Christmas Miracle of 1914In a hellish nightmare pit, soldiers stand...
Along the Western Front's cruel, jagged land,
Where blood and tears paint the earth's sad lore,
They mourn their fallen with...
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Categories:
soldier, christmas, friendship, hope, love,
Did the People SingDID THE PEOPLE SING
Did the people sing marching to the front
Perhaps just in innocence and camaraderie
Yet unsuspecting the same of their enemy
It was not just...
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soldier,
Epitaph For An Unknown SoldierFor Memorial Day, 2023...
Rest now
The wind knows your name
It is heard in the song it sings to the stars
Now you can rest
And rest assured that...
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Categories:
soldier, memorial day,
No Win No Fee IiThe sharp suited man
With the Legal Degree
Looks back over years
To pass judgement on me.
While he was getting drunk
In student Uni bars
I was uniformed and...
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Categories:
anger, anxiety, conflict, soldier,
Risking It AllYoung and eager to defend
Our country till the very end
Buzzcuts uniforms and nerves
Training that will help them swerve
From the danger they will face
In a far...
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Categories:
america, jobs, loss, soldier,
A Pendulum SwingsA pendulum swings
Right, left, right, left
A bomb flies out and there is no life left to detect
A pendulum swings
Left, right, left, right
A...
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Categories:
soldier, dark, death, depression, suicide,
Ware - a ReappraisalHe had a way with words,
An avuncular style,
A throaty little laugh,
A world embracing smile.
He didn’t suffer fools gladly,
He thought that I was thick
But...
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Categories:
appreciation, friendship, memory, soldier,
Bitter Sweet MemoriesEarly winter morning remembering
From the soft warm depths
Of an old man’s bed:
Walking through dark streets
Shivering with cold, thinking of
The soft warm bed she’d...
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Categories:
soldier, first love, growing up,
Supper TimeOh the army looked after its own
It really must be said
Except the RSM didn’t really
Tuck the squaddies up in bed.
Three square meals a day
You...
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Categories:
soldier, food, humor, insect, memory,
BuddyI really didn’t like him
But what the heck
He was a fellow Yorkie
And he had a lot of neck
He played the piano by ear
And that’s just...
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Categories:
character, memory, soldier,
By Any Other NameThis isn’t the way it happened
But it really could have been.
Through half closed eyes
I can imagine the scene.
We’re sitting having a beer
The...
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Categories:
soldier, farewell, friendship, goodbye, humor,
The GentlemanYou shouldn’t be buried somewhere unmarked in there and I shouldn’t be here.
You should not have done that for me.
So many tears I’ve cried for...
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Categories:
soldier, absence, appreciation, freedom, life,
Mutually Assured DestructionA box on the guardroom table
Near the door, just by the wall
An innocent looking box
Metallic, grey, and small:
A knob or switch on the front,
Memory...
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Categories:
soldier, fate, history, military, nonsense,
Brideshead RevisitedI lay awake in that dark hour and was reflecting on my life
From all the travelling I had done to the breakup with my wife
I...
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Categories:
england, memory, soldier, war,