Usually, I would produce a ‘war’ poem for today, a special day in my calendar due to family and friends who have served in the armed forces, but will perhaps instead share an experience from one of my dreams several months ago, that now, in hindsight was always meant to told here. All I can …
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‘Cennytaph’.
(Inspired by Rudyard Kipling’s “Tommy Atkins”) Them boys up at Theipval Ridge, Yes, them blokes on the Somme, “What have them boys been up to, Where have them passed and gone?” That short lad ‘e were bare sixteen, Who put that ‘elmet on. “Why’d that young ‘un lie so, ‘Gainst a bugle’s bloody song?” And …
Remember
Will you think of them Today? Where the poppies bloom and sway, And the young ones went to play, In muddy fields night and day, In their uniforms brown and grey, Where in filth and mud they lay? Will you do your duty and repay, Those for whom danger was the way, When even names …
Armistice Day
I usually write a poem for Armistice Day here in Britain as it’s one of my important days (being an army brat), so I thought I’d leave this here. It does have a ‘Tommy’ slant, but I’d like to think that if you’re a reader from elsewhere, you will see it as universal. It is …
Mightier Is The Pen 