Courage of Youth, Battle of Ypres, Flanders Field
...Courage of Youth, Battle of Ypres, Flanders Field
(A Tribute)
Tough as nails young man with a red right hand
red-fire and whiskey ran in his blood.
Courageous seed of vast and cold hard land
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Categories:
battle of ypres, conflict, death, fate, sorrow,
Form: Sonnet
The Relief At Passchendaele
...In 1917 the British and Commonwealth forces attacked
In the Ypres Salient in the corner of Belgium they hacked
Through the Third Battle of Ypres that had been raging away
With the battlefield turn...
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Categories:
battle of ypres, rainbow, remember, world war
Form: Ballad
Passchendaele
...100 years ago at Passchendaele this day,
Young men prayed their fear would go away.
They waited, knee deep in mud, in trenches,
For the whistle to sound amid their defences.
They prayed for coura...
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Categories:
battle of ypres, world war i,
Form: Elegy
Passchendale: 3rd Battle of Ypres, 1916
...Even the dead reject this blasted earth.
The ground, such as it is,
Is freshly Antidiluvean,
The corpses swim within its tumbled, heaving masses
Blood and mud the mortar
Holding the chaos toge...
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Categories:
battle of ypres, death, fear, history, places,
Form: Free verse