Prose & Poetry

Throughout the year, Veterans Affairs receives wartime poetry from veterans, thoughts of the meaning of Remembrance Day from students and e-mail from all over the world to thank the brave men and women who gave of themselves during Canada's wartime for the freedoms we enjoy today.

Veterans Affairs invites you to submit your thoughts (Opens a new window), write a poem or prose, write a letter to a veteran or simply share what Remembrance Day and Veterans' Week means to you. Submissions will be posted on this page.

• I'll Remember
  by Emily Ruth Elliott

• We Will Remember
  by Hattie Dyck

• Tomorrows
  by Wally Kasper

• What is in the Tear?
  by Dan Gray

• Third Division Leaving
  by Terry Boyle

• Thanks
  by Peter Deschamps

• Veterans
  by Mike Kirby

• 1923-1943
  by Rebecca Shorten

• Reflections on Remembrance
  by Rebecca Shorten

• Duty
  by Denise Dubois

• Spirit of the Maple Leaf
  by Michael Wilder

• The Sweethearts of Peggy's Cove
  By Herb Peppard
  Dedicated to Greta

• We Died For You
  By Herb Peppard

• Remember Them
  By Herb Peppard

• Comrades
  By Herb Peppard

• Untitled
  By Elizabeth Tucker (Age 14)

• You Bought Me Time
  By Arnie Hanenberg

• The Old Comrade
  By

• The Poppy on the Floor
  By Cliff Cartmill

• November 11
  By Lloyd D. Clark

• I Remember
  By D. F. Beaudry

• Proud Canadian
  By Geraldine Arsenault

• Holding Hands
  By Geraldine Arsenault

• Memories of Walking
  By J. Kevin Lehman

• Twas The Night
  By Dion-Javier (DJ) Romano

• Remembrance Day 2002
  Jasmine Adele Montagnese (Age 10)

• The Liberation of Groningen by Canadian Armed Forces in 1945
  The Men of Maple Leaf
  John Piëst

• At The Cenotaph
  Paton Lodge-Lindsay

• In silence
  Paton Lodge-Lindsay

• Voices from the Past
  Jimmie Canning

• "The Path"
  Jim Steele

• Remember
  Madeleine Heckbert

• He Remembers
  Reginald MacLellan

• Handsome Young Son
  Reginald MacLellan

• Remembering Bobby
  Reginald MacLellan

• Korean War 50th Anniversary
  Lois Daley Laycock

• Our Nations' Pride
  Connor Shram

• Remembrance Day
  Angela Gobeil

• They Live On, Forever
  Catherine Lukan

• Our Nation's Pride: Canada's Peacekeeping Efforts
  Elizabeth Miller

• A Soldier's Duty
  Maureen Aubertin

• To our Canadians, to our Brothers!
  Michel Ronsmans

• Dear Father, Mother and Sister
  Justin Walsh

• Diary
  Jason Lundmark

• Diary
  Andrew Love

• Dear Mom and Dad
  Rita Nguyen

• Gone; But Not Forgotten
  Christina Chandler

• Dear Angela
  Jon Babiak

• Dear Abigail
  Darcy Newsted

• The Diary
  Emily Dechant

• June 30, 1915
  Leah Mann

• The Words of a Soldier
  Tassie Daviskiba

• Freedom is not Free
  Herb Peppard

• Peace Time
  Carolyn Hamilton-Kuby

• I Remember
  Brian Baker

• The Price of Victory
  Amber Atkinson

• Remembrance Day
  Denyse B. Mercier

• The Unknown Soldier
  Ashlee E. Venables

• The Stand
  Jayme VandenBerg

• Who am I?
  Brenda Rupert

• Thanks For Your Life
  Jordan Pike

• The Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier
  Jennifer McKay

• Who is the Unknown Soldier?
  Sheldon Martindale

• Who is the Unknown Soldier?
  Leah MacDonald

• Tears In His Eyes
  Lisa Krahn

• Who Is The Unknown Soldier?
  Annie Isabelle Gaudet

• The Unknown Soldier's Letter
  Meghan Doraty

• We Must Always Remember...
  Andrea Becking

• A Soldier's Cry
  Evy Du Mesnil

• War Letters
  Megan Barr

• A Soldier's Reflection
  Carly Monette

• A Grandfather's Heart
  Donald James White

• When Daddy Came Home
  Anne Davies

• Canada's Unknown Soldier
  H.L. Murray

• "Never Again" and "The Unknown Soldier"
  Prabhath Avadhanula

• Colours of War
  Stephanie Silk

• Let's Remember Them
  Stephanie Silk

• The Drum
  Bill Allen

• Entrance To Normandy
  Brent Baxter

• Thoughts Of A Volunteer
  Sharleen Davies

• It's a Gentle Place to Rest
  Stephen J. Fowler

• My Greatest Desire
  Jen Popovich

• Why remembrance day
  Alex Roy

• Remembrance Day
  Crystal Debbie Bateman

• Dear Veteran
  Jessica Thibodeau

• Prayer Before Battle
  Major Alex Campbell
  O.C. "A" Company, Hastings & Prince Edward Regiment
  Killed in action: December 25, 1943 at the Moro River, Italy

• Remembering My Friends
  Veteran Frank Aulbrook, Hailybury, Ontario

• Remembrance Day
  Kyle Roland Croswell, Winnipeg, Manitoba

• My Grandpa Went to War
  Blanche Budd, Ingersoll, Ontario

• The Last Farewell
  Cyril Crain (Poem for the 55th Anniversary of the Normandy Landings

• That Special Place
  Cyril Crain

• "We Will Remember"
  J.B. (Bunny) Dempsey, Chatham, New Brunswick

• Think and Remember
  Thomas Burns, London, Ontario

• War Poem
  Brandon McGee, London, Ontario

• Remember
  Fred J. Grass, Jr., London, Ontario

• Barren Existence
  Gabriel Carrières

• The War
  by Sherine Leite

• Young People
  by Thomas Machaj

• I Remember
  by Anne Minnery, Brantford, Ontario

• Flanders Fields
  by Natalie Sullivan (Age 10), Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island

• Words of Respect
  from a Grade Eight Class in Prince Albert Saskatchewan

• Why Only One Minute?
  by Uzoma Azuh

• For Those
  by Neil Lovitt

• Remember
  by Caitlin Thorne

• I Come to Say Goodbye
  By Isabelle McBride

• Broken Flight
  By Leila Bishopp Martin

• Remembering
  Presented by the Grade 6 Class
  St. Jude's Elementary, Vancouver, BC