Ghosts of Mametz Woods

On the 7th July 1916 the British attacked They were the 38th (Welsh) Division not holding back The Mametz Wood was well defended With the Germans holding their front they intended The German machine guns and shelling started With the Welsh suffering 400 casualties departed And the Welsh continued fighting there With casualties mounting and conditions hard to bare As with these Western Front the battle petered out then And the Great War finally came to an end But they say the dead soldiers are still there With people seeing and hearing them causing a scare With battle sounds within the Mametz Woods area And encounters with ghostly soldiers even scarier For when death violently occurs Some spirits are lost in the turmoil And they will not rest in the battlefield soul. © Paul Warren Poetry