Memorial Day – Decoration Day – USA
Posted: May 30, 2022 Filed under: Home and Garden, Poetry | Tags: BDSM, D/s, Death, dievca, Honor, Life, Memorial Day, Military Service, remembrance, service, Veterans 2 Comments
Eulogy for a Veteran
Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the mornings hush,
I am the swift uplifting rush
of quiet birds in circled flight,
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there, I did not die.
–Author Unknown
Photo: from History.com, Burial at Sea – 1944
dievca 
On a thousand small town New England greens,
the old white churches hold their air
of sparse, sincere rebellion; frayed flags
quilt the graveyards of the Grand Army of the Republic.
The stone statues of the abstract Union Soldier
grow slimmer and younger each year—
wasp-waisted, they doze over muskets
and muse through their sideburns . . .
Robert Lowell, “For the Union Dead”
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I always wonder – is it better to have an empty grave to remind one to mourn for a soldier or is it better to depend on yourself to think of them?
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