War Poems - Page 3

41. The Voice

• By Jodi M. Kucera
• Published by Family Friend Poems March 2022 with permission of the Author.

A young boy playing games of war,
His imaginings filled with innocence, unaware of reality's horror.

He heard a voice filled with cadences being sung like hymns,

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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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46. There Will Come Soft Rains (War Time)

Famous Poem

• By Sara Teasdale

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;

And frogs in the pools singing at night,

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