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Monday 15 November 2010

OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR

This poem was inspired by the film "Oh! What A Lovely War".

The war wasted men,
the trench souls
and minds
puppeteer'd from above
by moustachioed children.


Rapacious rats
crawled over dead
zombies of patriotism
and thoughtless death,
as they enriched the soil with blood.


And the glory of death is remembered.
The warmth of sacrifice cherished.

For the good of peace
death was refereed by God
who was on both sides,

helping poppies to grow;
orange spotted with black.


One for each man:
dried blood stains
on the face of a gas attack,
picked in bunches
and held in a virginal hand.


And the glory of death is remembered.
The warmth of sacrifice cherished.














QUELLE BELLE GEURRE

La guerre a gâché les hommes,
les âmes tranchées
et les esprits
marionnettiste d’en haut
par les enfants moustachioed.

Rats rapaces
rampé sur les morts
zombies du patriotisme
et la mort insensée,
comme ils ont enrichi le sol avec du sang.

Et la gloire de la mort est rappelée.
La chaleur du sacrifice chéri.

Pour le bien de la paix
la mort a été arbitrée par Dieu
qui était des deux côtés,
aider les coquelicots à pousser;
orange tacheté de noir.

Un pour chaque homme:
taches de sang séché
face à une attaque au gaz,
cueillis en grappes
et tenu dans une main virginale.

Et la gloire de la mort est rappelée.
La chaleur du sacrifice chéri.


WAR Warfare FIGHTING Armed Conflict WW1
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WAR (Especially modern warfare)


Through the mists of time,
the shrouded depths of eons past,
come the cries of futility and war,
of fallen men, fallen empires
there is no more.
Through the experience of time nothing is learned,
nothing understood,
war kills, stifles, rots and maims;
there is no good.
A war breeds heroes
hate and vengefulness,
it fractures nations
and cosmopolitan in its progress
becomes more, "Couldn't care less".
War of today in these mists of time
indiscriminate with public to view,

could envelope the world of nations, 
families;
me and you.














Feb 17 2022 - Please Mr. Russia do not invade.
                       USA keep your nose out. 
                       UK stop pretending you matter.

Feb 21 2022 - Here we go! National military complexes with too much stock?

Jun 08 2023 - Is the USA escalating atrocity or merely de-stocking?
                        Is the USA wrong?


Jun 11 2023 - Ukraine joining Nato is a WW3 trigger.
                         Pacts such as this started WW1 and WW2.
                         Still Ukraine want to join NATO

Jun 12 2023 - NATO avoid global repercussion of accepting Ukraine.
                          Ukraine must know NATO doesn't want their war ...

Sep 11 2023 - Oh no, these Two crackpots are talking - watch out!
                       
Here are links to some of my other war poems:





Here's a poem I came across by an artist called Mark Automation

SHALLOW GRAVE
The freedoms that we fought so hard to save
Are snatched out of our desperate grasping hands
And buried in an unmarked shallow grave

Despite our struggle, valiant and brave
They slowly seep away like hourglass sands;
These freedoms that we fought so hard to save

So helplessly we faced that tidal wave
And what became of all our hopeful plans?
They're buried in an unmarked shallow grave

The zealots fulminate and rant and rave
They seek to sabotage with their demands
The freedoms that we fought so hard to save

And when they gain the power that they crave
No clemency for any who withstand
Just burial in an unmarked shallow grave

And now we're little more than galley slaves
We blindly follow all of their commands
The freedoms that we fought so hard to save
Lie buried in an unmarked shallow grave

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from IMPOSSIBILISM, released January 4, 2023
Ukraine Russia Russian Invasion Ukrainian Suffering Russian Bastards, Keep out, WW11

OLD SOLDIERS NEVER DIE, THEY MERELY FADE AWAY (They die only when found)


For many days I've likened to death,
shot in the arm, the leg and the chest;
and laying on mud therein a ditch,
I've prayed for an end - to toss in my pitch;
but no-one's heard me - no-one's seen;
as I fight for death - to forget what's been.
I fight for death but she's taking her rest;
so I merely exist in my time of pain;
and I'll never die, I'll just exist,
I'll never move and I'll never stir,
for as long as mankind - I'll always be there.


Some soldiers were brought back


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AR Warfare FIGHTING Armed Conflict WW1 Trench LAURENCEAUX England LAURENCEAU Lawrenceaux LAWRENCEAU Laureanceaux LAURANCEAU Lawranceaux LAWRANCEAU Loranceaux LORANCEAU Lorranceaux LORRANCEAU POETRY Prose POEMS Social Comments HUMOUR Humerous SMILE Smiling LAUGH Laughing LAFF Laffing CYNICAL Truism TRUISMS Welcome HULL Kingston-Upon-Hull Kingston Upon Hull KINGSTON-ON-HULL Kingston On Hull YORKSHIRE East Yorkshire HUMBERSIDE Yorkshire DEPRESSION ThisISUll FED-UP Pissed-Off LONELY Disgruntled DISSOLUSIONED Blue BLACK Thinking BLOG Blogger LYONEL