Modern Day Macbeth
...A mother walks through bullets for bread
A child through shellfire for a sip of grain
Young girls bleed in corners quietly
Toddlers die in mothers' arm from thirst.
This is the plot, world is w...
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Categories:
shellfire, evil,
Form: Free verse
Echoes for a War Requiem
...I think sometimes of the life there once was:
Of a time when birds sang throughout the woods
And insects flitted between the flowers.
But when greedy hands infected the land,
The beauty was rui...
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Categories:
shellfire, death, memory, nature, remember,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Gallipoli
...In you the Dogs of War unleashed again
an Expeditionary Force by sea,
and in the ground in years fourscore and ten
lie bones of Empire and Admiralty.
How in muddy trench riflemen joining
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Categories:
shellfire, war,
Form: Sonnet
Tapora
...Like Hannibal we crossed the pass and crossed
the Alps (okay, the Brynderwyn Hills)
and a bridge too far on north-west passage.
From out of the Valley of Mizpah
to the fires of perdi...
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Categories:
shellfire, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse