Lest we forget 4th August 1914 - 11th November 1918

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Open Poetry #49

Lest we forget 4th August 1914 - 11th November 1918

MICHELMAS
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since 2012-02-15

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Lancashire England

0 posted 2014-08-01 06:11 AM

Sons of Lancashire

Poor wee spider spin me your yarn
The silver thread perchance so strong
Of moonlit sea to icy tarn
Of golden days of deeds not wrong

This sceptred Isle our love protects
From mountain top to valley green
In your mind's eye are there regrets
Land of beauty no better seen

On foreign shores a barrage creeps
As field by field and shredded tree
A man too soon his mother weeps
For he was told to keep us free

A body lies in flanders field
His pocket holds the letter read
He gave his all he did not yield
The white parchment now stained blood red

Her words to him were words of love
Each folded crease faint perfume still
Of newborn child for peace a dove
Just one last thought just one last will

Another boy who could not stay
No white feathers Gallipoli
From Lancashire now far away
A VC day to keep us free

His body torn no life within
A pocket watch his father gave
His love for her her love for him
It could not help, it could not save

Their lives that seeped into the ground
Their brilliant souls like church stained glass
A sole church bell, its mournful sound
She stands alone, Lancashire lass

icebox
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since 2003-05-03

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in the shadows

1 posted 2014-08-08 02:08 PM

Echoes of the Guns of August resonate in the Middle East to this very day.

bel1e
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since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

2 posted 2014-08-08 02:55 PM

I wish I knew a bit more about this time and this region...the poem invokes a soldier's despair and lonliness...for sure...

*~*great read

latearrival
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since 2003-03-21

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Florida

3 posted 2014-08-08 09:58 PM

Too many lost and torn away and it still goes on and on and on.Will we ever learn,are there any answers?. jo

MICHELMAS
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since 2012-02-15

Posts 305
Lancashire England

4 posted 2014-08-13 04:54 AM

Thanks for the comments
I had posted this before on forum 48 but in view of the 100 year anniversary, thought it might be suitable now
Michael

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