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A QUESTION OF WAR
War is some fine madness,
A tale of vanity's woe;
But from that great insanity
Can a greater sanity grow -
As successive waves of humanity
In their tides ebb to and fro?
Is the cruel price of each sacrifice
The cost of what we must know?
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Tuesday 6th February 2018 5:35 pm
A THOUGHT FOR REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY
War is madness,
War is sadness;
Its consolation -
Freedom's gladness.
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Sunday 12th November 2017 3:32 pm
NOVEMBER
Each November we are reminded, watching poppies fall...
Each represents a life surrendered answering duty's call.
And later, in the weeks that follow, when snowflakes fill the sky,
The mind is filled with thoughts of those whose lives had soon passed by.
Each fleeting flake a forfeited future deprived of its true worth -
And like the poppies - sent to fall and fade back in the earth...
Saturday 1st November 2014 3:03 pm
ARROMANCHES - a Re-post of Remembrance for 2014
On the beach at Arromanches then
Young men saw friends die;
Pacing the sands of Arromanches now
Old men softly sigh.
There by the sea at Arromanches
They cheer a much-loved Queen
But the Arromanches that their Sovereign knows
Is not the place they've seen
And the Arromanches where their Sovereign goes
Is not the place they've been.
On the beach at Arromanche...
Friday 6th June 2014 12:05 am
BLACK BLOOD - a poem for the Great War
My father survived the Western Front and the Italian Front in the Great War, promoted from the ranks to
2nd lieutenant, 1st Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, attached to the 5th Division. He was in
uniform again for WW2 and died aged 50 of TB when I was five. I have a book about the 5th Division left
by him, containing some handwritten recollections of that terrible conflict...
Wednesday 29th January 2014 4:37 pm
HEARTBREAK ETCHED IN STONE
I was visiting a memorial to my late father's first cousin killed in Ireland nearly a century ago.
Next to it was a headstone that told a desperately sad tale of another's loss.
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Hear...
Friday 21st September 2012 11:55 pm
ARROMANCHES - 1994 - D-Day plus 50
The Queen attended the 50th anniversary of D-Day and took the salute at the march past.
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On the beach at Arromanches then,
Young men saw friends die;
Bracing the sands of Arromanches now,
Old men softly cry.
There, by the sea ...
Monday 28th November 2011 2:08 pm
SUNSET OVER START BAY
In 1944, in a night-time rehearsal for D-Day off the Devon coast - code named "Exercise Tiger" - U.S. forces were attacked and suffered more casualties than on Utah Beach.
This poem is in memory of those lives, the loss of which was kept secret for four decades.
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Sunset slowly trims its lamp
Beyond the Start Bay Light
...Monday 10th October 2011 8:24 pm
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