Quotes about flag, page 65
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emotive political
anti-war poems
innocent poems
are flag blocked
policy is not
freedom of speech
responsibility
and harmony
flagging red
fellow members
who cannot
critical accept
analysis facts
reeks smacks
of McCarthyism
reds under beds
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poem by Terence George Craddock
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Freedom...Live and Die
Freedom...Live and Die
They plucked the sun from the heavens
They plucked three shining stars
Set these in a spotless triangle
Besides two parallel bars
One bar was crimson sunset
The other was azure sky
They vowed by the sun and the shining stars
For freedom they live and die
White were the souls they offered
Red was the blood they shed
Blue was the undying flame
That hallows the martyr’s head
Behold the flag in its glory
On this meaningful event in history
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poem by Jordan Legaspi
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My Mournful Memorial
As I ambled through a maze of stony monoliths
on a manicured green grassed carpet.
My sadden eyes were overwhelmed with myriad
names and dates of yesteryear's deceased.
Each encounter confronted conveyed to me
a sad reminder of Mans mortality.
All had some story to tell if they could speak.
Most I hope died naturally, others unnaturally.
Their demise, a mise en scène mournfully staged
for the most part many agonized years ago.
Suddenly like a fated mirage my son materialized.
A victim of a vicious war fought on foreign soil.
I knelt before his grimly, graven grave
and placed a flag and flowery wreath..then wept.
poem by Albert Ahearn
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One Last Cigarette
i took off my carpenter's apron,
laid my hammer on the nightstand.
unloaded my old shotgun,
and stood it against the corner.
i lowered the flag, put out the fire,
put sheets across the windows....
turned off the lights, pulled off my boots,
and walked out barefooted into the night!
sometimes you just get tired of
trying to save a world
that doesnt want saving...
when you cant even manage
to save yourself from yourself!
and sometimes it's just about the night,
and the way the darkness feels
wrapped 'round you in perfect stillness...
standing barefoot in the grass,
smoking one last cigarette.
poem by Eric Cockrell
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The Moment
The moment when, after many years
of hard work and a long voyage
you stand in the centre of your room,
house, half-acre, square mile, island, country,
knowing at last how you got there,
and say, I own this,
is the same moment when the trees unloose
their soft arms from around you,
the birds take back their language,
the cliffs fissure and collapse,
the air moves back from you like a wave
and you can't breathe.
No, they whisper. You own nothing.
You were a visitor, time after time
climbing the hill, planting the flag, proclaiming.
We never belonged to you.
You never found us.
It was always the other way round.
poem by Margaret Atwood
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Urbs Sacra Æterna
ROME! what a scroll of History thine has been
In the first days thy sword republican
Ruled the whole world for many an age's span:
Then of thy peoples thou wert crownèd Queen,
Till in thy streets the bearded Goth was seen;
And now upon thy walls the breezes fan
(Ah, city crowned by God, discrowned by man!)
The hated flag of red and white and green.
When was thy glory! when in search for power
Thine eagles flew to greet the double sun,
And all the nations trembled at thy rod?
Nay, but thy glory tarried for this hour,
When pilgrims kneel before the Holy One,
The prisoned shepherd of the Church of God.
poem by Oscar Wilde
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On The Highest Crest
On the Highest Crest
Beautiful October
God has gone main-stream
Ignores the seasons
Wants to be loved by us all
Before the big deluge
Lovely October
God disregard the cycles
My river is dry
While I sunbathe by its shore
And think of buying camels.
Godly October
Vacation’s our new deity
Tomorrow is today
Frost and snow are banished
But Himalaya is an island
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poem by Oskar Hansen
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Retaliation
When distant trumpets blow, sounding retreat
And all directions, pointed back to base
Despair waits, as the foe of greater threat
Such that only victory, would erase
The unhealed wounds and scars, that all bewailed
Add bitterness to misery and grief
Yet may behoove to change, the scheme that failed
Boding better times, but suffering, brief
The mound of dead piled up under the grass
Where limping comrades plant the tattered flag
Stands tribute, cast in bones instead of brass
But the action in which braves, should first log
.....Is find the strength to fight those doubts again
.....Always arrayed for battle in the brain.
poem by Reyvrex Questor Reyes
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Reading Your Love Poems
how i wish i could have
written much better about my
last nights with her
her 30 styles of moaning
a la
script of the vaginal monologues
her way of conquering
my territory and putting
her mark of flag
somewhere behind my back
as i bite my lips
because of a blending
of both pain
and pleasure and some others
which words
evidently fail in representing
what ecstasy was there
on those last five nights
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poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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The Terrible
This terracotta urn
contains the ashes
of an earth-baked dream.
You worship the setting sun,
rape of dawn will continue.
Intravenous entry of hope
had failed.
Outside the window
crowd of heirlooms, falling like stars.
Thoughts come and go, we hunted opportunities in vain.
Tonight I will dropp the wheels
on the tarmac, to roll the pride.
My flight had knocked out
the sleeping pain. Now amnesia
will help me to climb on the moon’s shoulders.
They dragged her in the field,
the most deprived one. Was outraged.
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poem by Satish Verma
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