Poetry, Love Poems, Love Poetry, Black Poetry, Famous Poets, Tho Hay, Tho Tinh » William Stafford http://www.vnpoems.com Tho Tinh, Tho Hay, Tho Tinh Yeu, Tho Xuan Dieu, Tho Vui, Tho Buon, Tho Hoc Tro, Love Poems, Sad Poems, Poetry Collection, Poems Collection, Short Poems, Famous Poems, Funny Poems, Inspirational Poems, Friendship Poems, Poems About Life, Romantic Poems Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:32:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border http://www.vnpoems.com/william-stafford/at-the-un-national-monument-along-the-canadian-border/ http://www.vnpoems.com/william-stafford/at-the-un-national-monument-along-the-canadian-border/#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:31:07 +0000 admin http://www.vnpoems.com/?p=1132 This is the field where the battle did not happen,
where the unknown soldier did not die.
This is the field where grass joined hands,
where no monument stands,
and the only heroic thing is the sky.

Birds fly here without any sound,
unfolding their wings across the open.
No people killed — or were killed — on this ground
hallowed by neglect and an air so tame
that people celebrate it by forgetting its name.

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