Best Quietening Poems

Barrage ceases
Smoke disperses
What sight awaits
Of this human curse

New craters formed
On top of old
The soil in turn
Wars ploughed fold

Cries echo
Across bloodied fields
Single bullets zip
As bodies yield

Where once were men
Of families and friends
Wanton carnage
Conflict rend

Patterns of dead
Adorn the land
Icons of death
In dark demand

Silence so serene
As the trenches...

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