War Poems - Page 3

41. To The War Returning

• By May Fenn
• Published by Family Friend Poems December 2018 with permission of the Author.

How blue are the eyes of my darling
And warm are her lips ruby red.
How white are her arms of enchantment
That beckon me into her bed.

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43. Welcome Home

• By Regina M. Elliott
• Published by Family Friend Poems December 23, 2023 with permission of the Author.

When I met the tall and amiable Vietnam War veteran,
my shyness showed,
yet, my throat dried and tightened when he softly
spoke the words, "The war never goes away."

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44. Lest We Forget

• By Iola J Zaan
• Published by Family Friend Poems November 15, 2023 with permission of the Author.

On barren land on western field
Where only sadness war can yield
On battle sites where none had grown
In fact the bravest seeds were sewn

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45. The Star-Spangled Banner

Famous Poem

• By Francis Scott Key

O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming?

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