Remembrance Poems
Two chairs
by Divyosmi Goswami
You would not remember,
When we were perched upon the eagle's eyes,
And through the narrow confines and intricacies
Of the grill, when we looked on at the cherry trees.
I remember scouting the blossoms,
Spreading their pink canopy like messengers of love.
But that year, it did not bloom,
Strong gusts of wind ravaged within.
......
Photograph
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
Some haunt me pleasantly,
Using the grains of dewy silence that speak loudly
Within the long, grey halls of history.
I recline on such images with smiles I borrow from
The penetralia of my soul and skin.
Behind them come lean trees denuded by the swift
Gales of re-greened winters that celebrated
Friendliness in the course of wondrous seasons.
I peer deeply at them, genuflecting to Time
For its abundance of grace and reflections.
......
Remembrance (After Christina Rossetti)
by Peter Dr Lim
After Christina Rossetti
I'd rather you rejoice and smile
than sigh in my permanent absence
past sweet memories to keep
in your remembrance -
such beauty and consolation
it is-- in this uninterruptible silence
watched over by the tender moon and stars
......
The unknown soldier
by Baramundi Roy
Unknown to us, yet known to God,
as through World War 1 he trod.
He'd never fought a war before
and did not like the sights he saw.
The shells and bullets flying by
and the carnage that made him cry.
He gave his all, his life he spent
as onward and upward he went.
......
Once
by Evelyn Judy Buehler
Once I had a pretty bird,
Sang the sweetest sounds ever heard;
But it flew away one day...
Once there was the reddest rose,
Beauty of the garden, I suppose;
But its petals blew away one day...
Once there was yellow butterfly,
Whose dance was lovely. Oh, my!
......
Two chairs
by Divyosmi Goswami
You would not remember,
When we were perched upon the eagle's eyes,
And through the narrow confines and intricacies
Of the grill, when we looked on at the cherry trees.
I remember scouting the blossoms,
Spreading their pink canopy like messengers of love.
But that year, it did not bloom,
Strong gusts of wind ravaged within.
......
Photograph
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
Some haunt me pleasantly,
Using the grains of dewy silence that speak loudly
Within the long, grey halls of history.
I recline on such images with smiles I borrow from
The penetralia of my soul and skin.
Behind them come lean trees denuded by the swift
Gales of re-greened winters that celebrated
Friendliness in the course of wondrous seasons.
I peer deeply at them, genuflecting to Time
For its abundance of grace and reflections.
......
With Tears in Our Hearts
by Lee-Ann Azzopardi
Soldiers fall everywhere on the battlefield
Like leaves in autumn
They lost their lives to save ours
And in their duty
They are gone, but not forgotten
Silence are the tanks and cannons
But the sounds of their spirits still fighting continues
Endlessly they march
And we remember with fallen poppies
That we wear in glory
......
Remembrance (After Christina Rossetti)
by Peter Dr Lim
After Christina Rossetti
I'd rather you rejoice and smile
than sigh in my permanent absence
past sweet memories to keep
in your remembrance -
such beauty and consolation
it is-- in this uninterruptible silence
watched over by the tender moon and stars
......
To the World/ У світ (Ukrainian)
by Halyna Myroslava
папір проривається
з мушлі земного життя
з глибокої ванни куди опускається тіло
човном вибираєшся
воду навбік від стебла
щоб веслами пам’яті
неба торкнутися ліри
(ГалинаМирослава)
