Voices of the Dead Are Rarely Heard

November 9, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is war, in honor of Veterans Day, which is celebrated on November 11.

Today’s poem is a Veterans Day poem about the need to remember.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Voices of the dead are rarely heard.

Each of us should set aside the time

To listen to their lost and anguished words,

Evocative as distant church bells’ chimes.

Reason cannot reason to life’s end,

A moment of its own annihilation.

Nor can any witness comprehend

'Ere death what might exist beyond sensation.

So let us long remember those who died,

Doing honor due, for they were loved

Alive and dead by those whose hearts abide,

Yet yearning though the mountains be unmoved.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/voices.html. For more Veterans Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/veteransdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Veterans Day

November 6: Veiled in Glory, One Looks Back and Grieves

November 7: Victories Require Validation

November 8: Veterans Have Served Their Time in Hell

November 9: Voices of the Dead Are Rarely Heard