Warfare

Never tread together again
never be together again
stitch the seam
where I escaped...

He was somebody's father,brother or son
He went into war carrying a gun
Kill or be killed...

night witches
on their broomstick byplanes
and crop dusters.
hot from the Kremlin...

The still crunch of frosted leaf
lay carpeted in holy triumph
across the field
trees...

Q uivers cause thy spine to jerk
U nimpeded, death doth lurk
O bscure faces smile and smirk...

Copper eyes my bonne lass,
Lamented tis bygones pass.
Sung sweetly a lovely ode,
...

Recluse hills dark and foreboding,
Along sorrow river shores eroding
Echoes of grisly...

I’ve felt doubt has bound both of my gnarled hands,
yet can’t control the very core of me.
...

Drowned in radiance,
horizon’s nimbus swells
Angel of dawn,
spawning teardrop,
...

Take a bullet for country and for Queen
That's what these men did who were barely eighteen
...

Precariously perched on the high wire of death,
tenaciously he fought on until nothing was left....

As a little girl,
he sat next to me
at junior school.
I always liked him.
No...

Sitting in a wheelchair by a disused shop
Hoping people passing by will talk and stop...

Today let's not forget our soldiers brave
Most of them finished up in an early grave
They...

The red poppies sway in a field somewhere in France
They signify soldiers who didn't stand a chance...

I almost time traveled,
to an era that shaped,
the lives of many..
in the North...

We saw the mass devastation of incendiary
as we put pen to paper in our diaries
we were...