Dedication World War I Poems

A beautiful sunny day,
In the land of paradise.
Thunder rings in the distance as my,
Pulse quickens, and dread takes over.
There are no clouds in the skies,
I...

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It's cold and it's windy
But still that crowd meets
To stand with respect 
At the top of Sharp Street.
The Bearers stand at attention
As though shrunken by...

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Oh! prophetic teacher 
World War II nun
Where are you now 
Miss Godowski
Godspeed creative writing English teacher 
Thank you for your courage teachings writings
Oh! poetic teacher...

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"Brothers In Arms"

Brothers in Arms are many things

Brothers in Arms are maybe but also
Not what you think

Brothers in Arms are many things

Brothers in Arms are...

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One man made a difference
One man raised a call
To unquiet the silent memory of 
when ten men had to fall

One man praised their honor
One man...

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REMEMBER US THIS WAY

I look back on the memories we’ve had sometimes ago
When life was free for every one of us, both young and old
When...

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Twenty one guns fired in unison on the days
We laid them in the ground
And to have them each call me their grandson
I was lucky and...

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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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Gifts of War

As we consider
or disparage this
wrenching title..
We are told stories
some long hidden
of camaraderie
transcending fear
real freedom..
Might we today 
look beneath all
of life's struggles
and dislocations
and find...

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Their years have slowly slipped away,
Our nation’s heroes with heads of grey
Once strong bodies, now weathered and weak,
‘tis’ the solitude of grave’s-rest, they seek.

Willingly went...

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Before you are flippant to an old wrinkled soul.
Remember they were once innocents, barely 18 years old.
Ill trained, unprepared, sent abroad, to a land unseen.
To...

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They were straight of limb as the bullets flew
Made up of true blues and fair dinkums too
When they landed on that bloody April day
They were...

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Seventy Three years ago today,
The war in Europe turned our way.
Through the waves, they came in waves
Through the waves, young strong Braves.
Across the beaches, under...

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American Soldier

God Bless you all, American Soldiers. 
For your dedication: to Our Country.
 
For putting your own life first; 
You are even sacrificing; 
Losing your...

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My soul rejoices
For its metaphors,
Those pure and mixed;

Transforms symbols,
Veiled into Light--

We are literary:

Our stories, lives,

Encrypted by the Maker,
Deciphered by
Men and women
With ears to the earth
And...

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