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Premium Member Unknown Soldiers by Max Burchett
...by Maxwell "Max" Sebastian Burchett One Memorial Day made me consider The many tombs to unknown soldiers, In memoriam to the lost From wars then and now, Unna......Read the rest...
Categories: unknown soldiers, bereavement, death, memorial, memorial
Form: Lyric

Like Rabbit In a Headlight Caught
...PTSD Like rabbit in the headlight caught I want to move, i know I ought But quicksand stuck, I’m petrified  My body still, arms laid by side Stretched out on mattress, naked, soaked From swea......Read the rest...
Categories: unknown soldiers, anxiety, death, death of
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member It's History
...Once upon a time it was called the Great War Alright it wasn’t a great war said the dead Not according to the unknown soldiers Blown away somewhere out there That’s war they say According to......Read the rest...
Categories: unknown soldiers, christian, political, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ashes of Gettysburg
...Oh Gettysburg, your battle flags lie charred beneath the corps that stormed the blue abyss. A fence of stone has marked the final yard where vanquished legions vanished in the mist. As cannon......Read the rest...
Categories: unknown soldiers, war,
Form: Rhyme
Again and Again
...Do they still dig up bodies from The killing Fields of Flanders, Bones of those long ago Enticed and betrayed, Lost generation, sold and Slaughtered for no real cause. Do they inter those bo......Read the rest...
Categories: unknown soldiers, anger, betrayal, death, sorrow,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Acknowledgements
...1. John Desmond Patrick Keegan 2. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 3. Sally Aline Mae Beller 4. Charles Edward A. Berry 5. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce 6. Béla Ferenc Dezso Blaskó 7. Joh......Read the rest...
Categories: unknown soldiers, appreciation, dedication, inspiration,
Form: List
At the Foot of the Unknown Soldier
...At the foot of the unknown soldier I heard them speak about the past The generation born after the war I heard them sing of warfare Like children recite rhymes I heard their threats of war Ev......Read the rest...
Categories: unknown soldiers, africa, angst, betrayal, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Romulus and Remus
...In similar kind the blood of violent dynasty's remains distinct without conscience its empire of centuries branded hot upon the slave born sweat and to dictatorship bring the mind and soul of ......Read the rest...
Categories: unknown soldiers, analogy, society, world,
Form: Free verse
Where Freedom Finds the Fire
...WHERE FREEDOM FINDS THE FIRE-Screwed XIII Contest Sponsor: Rob Carmack The liberation that resides within burning flames, creates a disaster of unknown soldiers with no names. Emanc......Read the rest...
Categories: unknown soldiers, courage, freedom, soldier,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
...The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier - Canada We all know you now You have fallen at our feet You have guarded them all with life and limb Noble and brave Only to fall at a cowards last call You h......Read the rest...
Categories: unknown soldiers, soldier, violence, war,
Form: Light Verse
Passchendaele
...Passchendaele Morning mist hung over the front line like a dirge, as far as one could see the landscape was gray as a German infanterist´s uniform and the few trees left standing had been hit ......Read the rest...
Categories: unknown soldiers, war,
Form: Blank verse
Red, White and Blue
...He Lay Where He Had Fallen. Enemy Fire Had Brought Him Down. He Knew His Life Was Over, As He Lost All Sight and Sound. He Knew a Peaceful Sleep, Amidst the Raging Guns of War, But for Him th......Read the rest...
Categories: unknown soldiers, patriotic, soldier, war,
Form: Rhyme
Fighters At Large
...A nebula rises unfazed after fission: after a fractured debate, greed crouching on the wrinkled noses of rugged bouncers. In remote history someone was burning itself out. A black eye surges forward......Read the rest...
Categories: unknown soldiers, art,
Form: ABC
Unknown Soldiers
...Just beneath a grassy meadow That one time was a battlefield Lies the bones of two unknown men Still clothed in their tattered fatigues in a shallow unnatural grave. Unnatural because if buried ......Read the rest...
Categories: unknown soldiers, deathgod, god,
Form: Verse
Fighters At Large
...A nebula rises unfazed after fission: after a fractured debate, greed crouching on the wrinkled noses of rugged bouncers. In remote history someone was burning itself out. A black eye surges fo......Read the rest...
Categories: unknown soldiers, art
Form: I do not know?

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