Armed Forces Day Poems

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Armed Forces Day Poems
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Our men and women who join up
Are special from the very start;
They think of others above themselves
This shows what's in their heart.

Their duties are not pleasant
They live for comradeship;
To serve and win their battles
Side by side as if joined at the hip.

For courage and bravery
They must be ten out of ten;
We hope they all come home again
We just don't know if and when.
Maggie-May

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Behind that long and lonely trenched line
To which men come and go, where brave men die,
There is a yet unmarked and unknown shrine,
A broken plot, a soldier’s cemetery.
There lie the flower of youth, the men who scorn’d
To live (so died) when languished Liberty:
Across their graves flowerless and unadorned
Still scream the shells of each artillery.
When war shall cease this lonely unknown spot
Of many a pilgrimage will be the end,
And flowers will shine in this now barren plot
And fame upon it through the years descend:
But many a heart upon each simple cross
Will hang the grief, the memory of its loss.
John William Streets

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Arguments start from not a lot at all
They grow and grow till unseen;
Forgotten beginnings turn into tit for tat
Peace has gone as if never been!

Others then take on the fight
As bigger it still grows;
After all these years when will it end
Only heaven knows!
Maggie-May

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Armed Forces Day Poems
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To all those not forgotten
Every single day;
Not sitting at their tables
Whilst their children sit and play.

The sons and daughters not at home
Whilst parents wait anxiously;
For messages to never stop
Whilst they serve courageously.
Maggie-May

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