Stalingrad House To House Fighting
Dedicated to Max
The Germanski filth fearfully shout out Ivan!
Which we always kindly reward with a bullet.
When an arrogant new officer breaks cover,
Our sniper fingers his trigger and pulls it.
He didn't live long
Nothing ever does.
Welcome to Stalingrad...
My shock squads tough, demanding objective is a tall end house,
Defended by die hard Waffen SS armed to the bloody teeth.
My men so dearly love to kill these so called Hitler elite,
Our cold knives will stab them when out of their oiled sheath.
My boys are hardened veterans, and I their Kymvzvoda,
A platoon commander, who of Stalin, I'm not a fan.
He killed my older brother in a pre-war officer purge,
I fight for Mother Russia and secretly detest the man.
Night falls, and we blow a hole in the ground floor wall,
We storm the breach twenty strong firing at rapid pace.
They're caught napping, if it sleeps or moves, it dies,
We now own the room and the corridor to the staircase.
The staircase, always a staircase, a damn bloody staircase,
A tough nut to crack under constant fire, but not impossible for us.
Grenades, smoke grenades, more grenades, more smoke grenades,
We throw them up under covering fire and feel them all concuss.
We break cover, running, moving, moving, rushing upward!
They can't see what they're shooting at in the thick smoke.
But we can, we fire full load Shpagin at faint muzzle flashes,
They scream and fall at the sweet sound it's buzz does evoke.
We move on, my men like me, now are blood crazed and honed,
Then a shout goes out, Major we got kids in here, both alive!
The house is now thankfully cleared and we rush to view the kids,
Pitiful, hollow-eyed, starving, a boy and girl no older than five.
Bastards! They wouldn't let them go, just fun to see them starve.
Myself and my men in tears, this is why we fight and die for.
Suddenly, we hear the rockets roar fired from our many Katyusha's,
An offensive, as we feed and sing lullabies to the little babooshka's.
Dedicated to Max.
Thanks Max for backing my corner.
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Comments
Wow. This really blew me away Shaun. The speed and ferocity in which you write really express the chaos of the front lines. I really enjoyed the narrative and back and forth between the bigger picture, setting the scene at the beginning of the write. You're a fantastic writer! and too kind, again, thank so much for the kudos. Means a hell of a lot my friend. Smiles. Max
Aww abfab Shaun ❤️❤️❤️
Excellent, Shaun. This is gritty and tough. Another astounding write of WWII and the horrors of Stalingrad. A combination of the Russian scorched earth policy and the freezing conditions made for hell on earth x
Tina many thanks and as you say gritty and tough. And this was one of the hardest ones to write I just thought it was to over descriptive
(too long a sentence)
and I couldn't make it short and punchy without losing the big picture.
Max mentioned if I had any more WW2 poems after reading the others I put up and I remembered this one and put it up for him.
I was never going to, but for Max who like yourself are such great members and poets I upped it.
It's nice to know I can get it wrong for all the right reasons.
Thanks again Tina and you mention Russian scorched earth policy so its nice to know you know what went on in those dark times.
I wish you well and your Scarlet poem after reading yesterday still blows me away thinking about it, with its gifted prose and dark imagery! Brilliant!