Poetry Corner

September 07, 2025

VMF Poem of the Month: “Thoughts and Prayers” by Erin Hoffman

Thoughts and Prayers   by Erin Hoffman The port lies stripped and bare;My friend famine lingers there.Solitary by the sea,nets hang torn; she leans on me. UN flour sacks split......
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July 29, 2024

August 2024 Poem

POETRY CORNER   THE POOR VOTER ON ELECTION DAYby John Greenleaf Whittier   The proudest now is but my peer,The highest not more high;To-day, of all the weary year,A king......
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June 28, 2024

July 2024 Poem

POETRY CORNER Patriotic Music of John Philip Sousa    Sousa's Patriotic Music | A Capitol Fourth | PBS Vintage sound recordings of Sousa’s favorite compositions remain available in digital form......
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May 27, 2024

June 2024 Poem

POETRY CORNER The poem that launched D-Day for the French Resistance. For the whole story, click this link! "Chanson d'automne" ("Autumn Song")  by Paul Verlaine (1844–1896) The long sobsOf violinsOf......
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April 28, 2024

May 2024 Poem

POETRY CORNER John McCrae 1872 – 1918   In Flanders Fields   In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row,     That mark our place; and in......
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March 26, 2024

April 2024 Poem

POETRY CORNER Aunt Chloe's Politics Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1825 – 1911 Of course, I don’t know very much     About these politics, But I think that some who......
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February 26, 2024

March 2024 Poem

POETRY CORNER Election Day, November, 1884by Walt Whitman  If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest          scene and show,’Twould not be you, Niagara—nor you, ye limitless prairies—nor......
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January 26, 2024

February 2024 Poem

POETRY CORNER O Captain! My Captain!by Walt Whitman  (about the death of Abraham Lincoln) O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done; The ship has weather'd every rack, the......
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January 17, 2024

January 2024 Poem

POETRY CORNER The Battle Hymn of the Republic Julia Ward Howe   ‘Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: ⁠He is trampling out the vintage......
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November 26, 2023

December 2023 Poem

POETRY CORNER Christmas Bells Henry Wadsworth Longfellow   I heard the bells on Christmas DayTheir old, familiar carols play,    And wild and sweet    The words repeat Of peace......
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