The Forgotten

You, the forgotten,

Chindits, Gurkhas, Commonwealth

Fighting to the end

In the jungles of Burma.

Now you are the remembered.

[for Sergeant Major Kenneth Whiteley a Burma campaign veteran and my father]

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her smile came so easily

before I could even blink,

she made my heart race

brought me to the brink

dress slipped off so easily

mysore silk of jade green,

the body of a svelte and

molten Myanmar queen

her love given so easily

from a brimming chalice,

no passion ever rivalled

what oozed from Alice

slipped away so easily

with barely a mumur,

pe...

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ICE FLY

How many pilots died and old aircraft lost when they flew over jagged snowy peaks in the remotest corners of the world? Doing a dangerous job knowing the risks and trusting in fate and luck to bring the through. Some never made it, there planes impacting vertical mountain sides in sickening crashes. Bodies lost forever, frozen in the time of death. Icily cold and otherworldly ...

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