Monday, May 25, 2015

Fort Snelling Military Cemetery-Memorial Day, 2015



The Crosses
I stood there before the crosses 
glowing white in row on row
Everyone a young life cut short
as the names upon them show.


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“Voices of boys were by the river-side.
Sleep mothered them; and left the twilight sad.” 


An Irish Airman foresees His Death


I KNOW that I shall meet my fate
Somewhere among the clouds above;
Those that I fight I do not hate
Those that I guard I do not love;
        —Wm Butler Yeats


High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . .
Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
— John Gillespie Magee,

10 comments:

  1. Perfect post for Memorial Day, Kate!

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  2. A fitting tribute.

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  3. Lovely tribute, Kate. Also I just went back to see your latest Art in Bloom post...the sense of movement in the floral arrangement really ties into the art and its story. So lovely and spot-on.

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  4. Beautiful tribute Kate!

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  5. A sobering sight. I don't why mankind feels the need to kill each other.

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  6. An ideal post for today, Kate!

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  7. We always must remember those brave men.

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  8. Beautiful poems for Memorial Day and they go so nicely with the photo and row upon row of graves.

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