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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Categories:
unknown soldiers, africa, america, business, courage,
Form: Narrative
The Unknown Soldiers of Jesus Christ
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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Categories:
unknown soldiers, education, endurance, jesus,
Form: Free verse
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,
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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Categories:
unknown soldiers, bereavement, death, memorial, memorial
Form: Lyric
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
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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Categories:
unknown soldiers, deathgod, god,
Form: Verse
Unknown Soldiers Grave
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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Categories:
unknown soldiers, angst, confusion, death, introspection,
Form: Elegy