Bayonets Poems - Poems about Bayonets

Thought I had Better Keep My Mouth Shut

...They came for the ones who floated in on streamers.
I did not care, they weren’t relatives or anything.
Then the soldiers came for the polka dotted ashtinglers.
I was never fond of them, so I igno...

Total War

...Tread not on me, brother!
To live is to expand.
Deterrence! Slay the Other!
Cold core countermand!

Boots a-click-clack, cobblestone.
Midnight raid and how!
Help the boy to hold his own!
Sacr...

Scarlet Ribbons

...Scarlet Ribbons

Angry bullets curse and swear
Paint scarlet ribbons through your ice blonde hair
Scarlet ribbons burst the skies
Scarlet ribbons haunt my eyes

Then time stands still as I dri...

False Dawn

...The night sings outside
or what's left of it as the sun
stretches and yawns, hits snooze,

it's blue out. My eyes burn and
no one has spoken in hours.
But the quiet is punctuated
by periods of...

In the whispering embrace of twilight's veil

...In the whispering embrace of twilight's veil,
Where shadows lengthen and echoes of memory swell,
I find myself drifting in a river of consciousness,
Young boys, brave and bold, stepping into etern...

The Vultures Dance

...Timelike and the decaying bodies piled high cease to amuse the vultures now

 

Single shots give the rebels confidence

 

They attack in force

 

Heavy machine gun fire from the west t...

Queen Bess's Uniform

...Queen Bess's Uniform

We didn’t want the frostbite
We didn’t want the burns
We didn’t want to leave our homes
And families far astern.
We didn’t like the future
As we grimly sai...

Battle of Beersheba

...
                         I
“Charge!” they said and charge they led
      from out of a dry desert wadi.
 Every man of the Light Horse Brigade
   across the desert thundered -
 their pulsin...

Armiens

...supposing this mined ground beneath a sky of warheads
 and a time of damaged armor that try to evade the point of bayonets 
when the planet will be called blood 
and seeing that harmony so...

Enlisted

...A troop  matching,  
climbing the  cliffs ready in arms,  
Guns in gaunt and bayonets fixed. 
armoured tanks in rows.
Arrows and terrors like darts, 
enraged for the kill.
is this a war? 
Yes,...

In Silence

...In Silence
The English ex SAS Special Forces member went to the Ukraine to fight. He travelled light and took just a small back pack and a head full of skills. A gun was a gun and a bayonet a bayone...

The Stranger of You

...Waiting on the line cos there’s nothing else left to do.
Waiting for the time when we share the ground with you.

Words, meanings, thoughts are blind but our bayonets are sharp and are magazines a...

Loos, France, Fall 1915

...Slaughter amongst the slag heaps
Bodies bowed over barb wire
Screeching, screaming
artillery arching above
soon to descend
amputating limbs
shattering skulls
blood and brains
splattering stai...

The Spirits of Culloden

...The Spirits of Culloden. 
This is like a pilgrimage, a try tae come every year,
Gather at the cairn, meet old friends, wipe away a tear.
Standin on that moor, that once with blood was sodden,
Pay...

Lest Flanders Was Alive Come 11 November

...Where once the mighty timid
Flanders soldier shook

Bathed in foriegn mud underfoot

All but one and two a man

Hard fought and pressed with bayonets clenched in hand abreast
expedient beatin...

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