Tag: war
member name: Peter R.
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November 11, 2009 10:34 AM EST --
THIS ELEVENTH HOUR OF THE ELEVENTH DAY OF THE ELEVENTH MONTH.
At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month Dorothy and I were in the shopping . . .
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May 01, 2009 11:33 AM EDT --
WHY MEN GO TO WAR
In the danger zone
Where these men die one by one
Bullets screech wildly
Searching beating hearts,
Turning vibrant loving life
To still final death,
And the roar . . .
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June 14, 2009 03:07 AM EDT --
THE OLD WARRIOR
He had fought in wars.
He had stained many a field in many a country here and there and everywhere . . .
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November 24, 2009 02:09 PM EST --
CONTRASTS
There’s a light outside the window
Where Bushy Squirrel sleeps,
A glittering diamond glow-worm
And Bushy Squirrel . . .
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March 19, 2009 04:53 AM EDT --
OFF TO GLORY
There was a whisper in the air that day,
A syllable of doubt and fear,
No girls and boys went out to play,
There were no children running near.
Old men shivered in their halls, . . .
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April 30, 2009 01:58 PM EDT --
WHERE THOMAS RAGIN WALKED
In the greenwood by the oak tree
Where the babbling stream goes by,
There’s a hillock like a mountain
If you’re knee-high to a fly.
In that hillock like a mountain . . .
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September 02, 2009 04:14 AM EDT --
For the benefit of those who may not know, I met my wife (although I'm well stricken in years we only married last year) via the good offices of a social networking site and not a dating or introductions . . .
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September 30, 2009 04:11 AM EDT --
THE SHADOW
I rode with the warrior Down the valley to war, I encouraged his steed As it savagely tore With wild steaming breath Towards the bullets of death… . . .
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October 13, 2009 04:22 AM EDT --
THE WAR HERO
“I lost my arm in battle,”
The old man tried to say,
But words and he were strangers . . .
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November 01, 2009 04:41 AM EST --
MAN WITHOUT A SWORD: HAIKUS.
Man without a sword:
Take the broken shield, master,
And go to your war. . . .
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July 04, 2009 04:21 AM EDT --
DECEMBER 1943
The bomb fell somewhere in Warwickshire one day in December 1943 the very moment a squawking brat screamed his first obscenity and hissed his first prayer. . . .
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July 05, 2009 04:25 AM EDT --
ALBERT AND HITLER
Albert said over his smoking pint and foaming briar pipe with its heady mix of toxins that it had been a day like this, wet and windy, cold to the bone, that Hitler sent . . .
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October 25, 2009 05:14 AM EDT --
THE WEARY BLOODY WAR
“If you had lived as long as I have lived,” observed the old man to a motley group of ragged children, . . .
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November 09, 2009 03:54 AM EST --
TWO SOLDIERS
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There’s a dungeon in the castle
Where the spirits like to play,
A dark and wholesome dungeon
And I went there . . .
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March 08, 2009 08:24 AM EDT --
I have long despaired of the quarrels that lead mankind to armed conflict. Millions over the centuries have given their lives in war and for each and every one of them it was the totality of what they . . .
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October 09, 2009 03:43 AM EDT --
HE DIED IN WAR
A man dies for me
In mud mixed with blood,
A man with no name,
I stand where he . . .
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