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Summer Veterans Day Poems

These Summer Veterans Day poems are examples of Veterans Day poems about Summer. These are the best examples of Veterans Day Summer poems written by international poets.

Cora's Clothesline

What softness in silence amidst the cacophony of a spin cycle world war.
Lying next to your glow in sleep's stillness, careful of your bandaged hand.
Watching...

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Categories: veterans day, desire, heart, innocence, june,

Thola Africa

In the raging sun of summer time
The blowing wind of the winter
In the harvest time of sweet autumn
The divine feeling of the spring touch
We are...

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Categories: veterans day, africa, america, anti bullying,

The Ghosts Behind the Graves On Omaha Beach

They were young then, now they would be old men looking across an empty beach, the sun at their back; for many this would be...

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Categories: veterans day, death, dedication, hero, history,

America the Free

America the Free
© Ben Burton 11-11-2014

Atrocities of war
That mortify the soul
So bravely have they fought
With freedom as their goal

But there's an afterlife
For combat veterans
A stark...

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A Lovely Day

From the past days of old.
At Seventh Street & Florence Avenue.
Vehicles in pristine finished.
Bragging Rights Mint Condition.
Proudly rolled by in a yearly tribute.

Very close behind...

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Categories: veterans day, celebration, community, history, holiday,

Water Fountain Sculpture

multi-cultural mecca
Farmers' Market at the United Nations Plaza,
San Francisco

water fountain sculpture
misting through the
jazz audience at lunchtime, 
during the weekday summer concert series

poetry gives me new...

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Categories: veterans day, community, strength, symbolism, veterans

Leaving August

Leaving the last days of August
          memories of the sea waves crashing 
   ...

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Categories: veterans day, absence, america, august, autumn,