Sassoon Poems - Poems about Sassoon

... Attitude Is Everything Miracle Man October 29, 2023 Request for change is often met, with some platitude. It’s easier to change environment, than an attitude. You’ll seldom get all......Read the rest...

...Destiny good Destiny bad Destiny bring out the Best in Me Destiny know I ain't got a phone She give me one call me incessantly I met a hooker named destiny she gave me a johns phone You try t......Read the rest...

... "transference" transference in a narcissistic world propaganda for the unsuspecting validation for the damaged writers soldiers victims survivors war foug......Read the rest...

...Poems about Poets Elemental by Michael R. Burch for and after Dylan Thomas The poet delves earth’s detritus—hard toil— for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet; each syllab......Read the rest...

...State of the Art (II) These are my "ars poetica" poems about the art and craft of writing poetry. What the Poet Sees by Michael R. Burch What the poet sees, he sees as a swimmer ~~~......Read the rest...

...Sassoon and Owens? The learned men spend much time in libraries to find about their private life, dissecting poems to find the banal truth about two men, “as no men love for long.” I have read ......Read the rest...

...A Vain Word by Michael R. Burch Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining till sunset implodes, till the moon strands grey pearls under m......Read the rest...

...Christ and the Soldier by Siegfried Sassoon (1916) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7OEnXw7P60 The straggled soldier halted and clumsily went down "O blessed crucifix, I'm beat !" C......Read the rest...

...A week before the Armistice, you died. They did not keep your heart like Livingstone’s, then plant your bones near Shakespeare’s. So you lie between two privates, sacrificed like Christ to politi......Read the rest...

...Your thinking led you to become a Christian and your family disowned you because of that. You were the journalist, contributing articles with business-like editing decisions. After death......Read the rest...

...We Buy Poppies Red as blood And wear them with pride In memory of fallen heroes, Those young men and boys, slaughtered one hundred years ago. No ! We Cannot Remember Because we weren’t t......Read the rest...

...The War Poets The First World War wasn`t a world war but a war of dominance in Europe chiefly by the Franc, British and Germany. World War 2 included most country it was a nasty war millions of......Read the rest...

...Looking back in time can be selective in comparison to the present. It may be likened to a dripping faucet that has been finally fixed. You only remember the relief of the silence. But I belie......Read the rest...

...Dear budding poet, Regarding modern poetry this is a result of poets such as you redesigning forms of poetry written through the ages by different nationalities, famous and just ordinary people li......Read the rest...

...The face behind the harlequins gaze hides the scars of yesterdays man. Born in an Attercliffe slum in the rags of fathers graft, with a pencil for a voice stolen from milk mans note. . A boy......Read the rest...