In the 1960s and 70s, DC Comics added a slug with the legend "Make War No More" to its war-story comic books. Source: Lady, That's My Skull |
Remember Tens
of Thousands with
fervent frightened
prayers to
Pray Ringing morning
bells to ring, remember
Hundreds
of Thousands with
tender Flowers to
grow and
nurture and
Place on dry
white bones
at the bottom
of the Sky blue
watery Sea, remember
Millions more souls
their Deaths finally
justified
Heroic Happy
dead the
Deathofdeath on
abandoned brutal
Battlefields,
remember Memorial
Day
as America’s
no more
wars day
Gil Hoy studied poetry at Boston University, majoring in Philosophy and Political Science, and received an MA in Government from Georgetown University and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. Gil started writing his own poetry in February last year. His poems have been published most recently in The New Verse News, The Antarctica Journal, Third Wednesday, The Potomac, and The Zodiac Review.