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Dead of the war
Contributed by
thepoet353897
on
Sunday, 1st March 2015 @ 12:54:02 PM in AEST
Topic:
war
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The dead of the war stand in gloom
A scarlet tinge for the muted room
People beaten by tools of war
Stand together, forgotten in law
Anxiety and anger purge my heart
This beats to the soldier’s steady march
Into battle we must go
Our general shouted, we moaned and groaned
My conscience took my by the hand
Or cowardice I turned and ran
Murdered by our former friends
Comrades lives now loose ends
A shell amiss, an ‘honourable death’
The recollection of quickened breaths
The flicker book of Sundays passed
A life that was meant to last
Respect upmost those who fought
Let them occupy your thoughts
I’m not the mean and selfish kind
These people will always fill my mind
I loved my life, I treasured it
Now memories come back in bits
We marched in battle, four by four
We are the dead of the war
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Re: Dead of the war
(User Rating: 1 ) by Waynster on
Sunday, 1st March 2015 @ 03:00:45 PM AEST (User
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Thank you for your dedication to us Veterans and Soldiers. Very much appreciated my friend.
About your poem, Maybe I am not reading it correctly, but when I read it, I have to stop because of broken flow. You have an awesome talent, but you rhyme, then don't rhyme, you mix up the poem a lot. You have meaning or a story within your poem, but you choke the poem instead of letting it flow from the tongue.
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