As Memorial Day is now upon us I realize that I have an extra poem. I am late in posting today..So no real introduction. Just a two for the price of one day.
Please read and remember,
Jake.
The Fruit Of Freedom
Freedom tastes, the sweetest fruit,
but bitter, is it grown,
for blood, it is the water,
and the seed, is courage shown.
The sunlight is conviction,
and hardship, oft be known.
But to taste, the fruit of freedom,
many it’s planters, be laid prone.
***
Jack Downing
Jan. 2012
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Fallen Trees
Fallen comrades,
as fallen trees,
rest with Mother Earth.
Ancients felled,
or the freshly hewn,
have given all their worth.
*
Leaves departed,
limbs are gone,
but deep, their roots remain.
Lest we forget,
how tall they stood,
let us weep, at Taps refrain.
***
Jack Downing
Jan. 2012
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limbs are gone – unfortunately true for men as well as battle scarred trees. 60,000 returning amputees from Iraq and Afg.
I know, and it is hard to say that due to medical prosthetic advances, some of them are so much better off than their predecessors.
More greatness here, Jake! Thanks for sharing from your heart.
The “greatness” belongs to them..Thank you Beth Ann.
BRAVO!!!!
I am touched. Thank you, Eva.
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I love the poems. Very fit for memorial day.
Thank you so much.