Unknown Soldiers Poems - Poems about Unknown Soldiers

We walked briskly across the traveled path And stumbled upon something peculiar in the dark We didn’t stop to look around, Night was hunkering down upon us and we were All in a hurry to catch the mid-night bus It was pitch dark and we had flash lights But the glow had gone out of them and we had to Rely on...

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Unknown soldier You are cherished and loved Unknown believer You are never forgotten Unknown man and woman You are deeply loved On earth some of us are not known But in the Kingdom of God we are all known There are times many of us are alone in our faith But Jesus is always with us Unknown soldier You are cherished and loved Unknown believer You are...

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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, Unnamed ghosts. Is memory of all without any names, The memory of none? Surely the names were known to some, All missed and mourned by a loved one. All had mothers with pain and grief unknown. Those who...

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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 With the customary honors There would have been two separate grave sites with much deeper holes. One of the uniforms was gray In color, the other one blue. It’s fair to assume that...

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Struggling to put face and name together You passed so long ago it is difficult to recall Those bright hazel eyes that sparked of life Dirty blonde hair as it shone in the daylight Gone in the autumn you fell with the leaves But you won’t return with the natal of spring They regret and apologize for wars long over Now old...

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