Memorial Day Cinquain Chain
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Half-mast
for dead soldiers,
then the Red, White, and Blue
flies gloriously, the flag of
Freedom.
Praise the
fallen soldiers
with poppies and roses,
diminutive flags fly in the
Graveyard.
Respect
with a parade,
bugles sounding out Taps
and a twenty-one-gun salute.
Honor.
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Paula Frew
Transplanted from Ohio to Kentucky to be near her only daughter and three young grandsons, the author wrote her first poem in the fourth grade. She fell in love with the form and was first published in an anthology at fourteen. A battle with multiple sclerosis has caused her to find her home in a nursing home, where she has found time to craft her poetry as well as time to teach writing to other residents. She has been published in several literary magazines and anthologies, including Ohio Bards and The Walt Whitman Anthology.
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