Poems For Remembrance Day

For this Remembrance Day, some poems in memory of the fallen:

Through the Eyes of a Soldier

One breath, one individual breath,

exhaled slowly across the arena of battle.

A small impulsive act, to muster your valour,

before you step into war, into the killing field.

Where bodies drop upon the trampled ground,

where you will choke on grime and acrid smoke,

as the earth grows sodden, drenched with blood,

and the air will hum, unreal, with lingering death.

Pain is the final sensation your body will know,

before you succumb and fall, with one last breath.

In Memoriam

Battlefields of scarlet

where the flowers grow

and the wind blows past

the fallen soldiers.

Where the flowers grow

with memories of soldiers;

ghosts not forgotten.

And the wind blows past

rows of weathered stone,

that mark their graves.

The Fallen Soldiers;

lives given, sacrificed

in war, in honour.

Soldier Boy

Play me a tune for Death;

he has passed this way.

A sad lament, for those

who shed their final blood

on this forlorn battlefield.

Play a song of sorrow

for your fallen friends.

Each and every soul

who shall never grace

again, this vibrant earth.