War Poet

Thursday 21st March 2024 2:38 pm

I would encourage you to click the link at the foot of the text to view a video which might afford some context to the scribble, thank you.

Today he only wants to drink

perchance to dream

but not to think

Today he picks the scab anew

to make it clean

like surgeons do

Today he shuns his injury

to feel it like

it used to be

Today he peels his memory back

sticks his fingers

in the black

Today he does away with words

what use of those

that never heard

Today he digs his pockets deep

to spend the hours

he cannot sleep

Today he sees his various self

where he left them

on the shelf

Today he dives into his pool

and knows himself

to be the fool

Today the day is all too much

he cannot stand

without his crutch

Tomorrow comes with wound and bruise

and more torment

he'll never loose

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Landi Cruz

Sun 24th Mar 2024 06:32

I think I take your point about moving forward, David.

Maybe analogies about the physics of the universe would serve us better if we could actually take a universal view of history, which doesn't really seem possible.

Thanks for your thoughtful contributions...

David RL Moore

Fri 22nd Mar 2024 11:03

Hi Landi,

Thanks for your comments.

I hear your point regarding entropy, I believe that entropy is unstoppable regardless whether the past be forgotten or not. I would rather say that forgetting enables the act of moving forward free of the past, which is something else. Forgive me if I misunderstand.

Yes, headlines are the clay from which the digestible established facts are formed...that is why first hand accounts are desirable to counter those favoured by the masters. That is also why third hand musings can be dangerous and unreliable for they too are maleable by unscrupulous forces...indeed some are even agents of those forces. Forgive my slightly conspiracy type theory, I definitly am not for most of that nonsense but am aware of how State actors might manipulate to favour.

I could quote the suspension of the Governmental spokes person Eylon Levy this very morning by his State Government. How long have most of us seen his untruths spoken. I suspect he was a calculated pawn in the game and may not receive too much by way of punishment. I would say a necessary sacrifice to effect a greater purpose, (as perceived by The State, not me) he may even get promoted.

I have heard of though am not familiar with Tim O'Brien, perhaps I'll take a look.

As an alternate thought, I am a great admirer of the correspondent Don McCullin, he managed to convey and suggest truths by hardly ever speaking a word. Strange world eh?

All the best,

David

David RL Moore

Fri 22nd Mar 2024 05:43

Thanks for reading, comments and likes.

I would encourage you to view the link as it does dive a little deeper into the origins of this piece.

In all humility I would ask those who write of war who have not truly experienced it to consider those who have. To possibly imagine the price they continually pay for doing so and their attempts to convey those horrors to others. As I say in my video I do not object to anyone writing about anything from any perspective. The truth probably is that the greatest most beautiful and horrific thoughts on war have never seen the page as they have never survived to do so. It is with that it mind that I suggest we tread delicately on subjects where we present ourselves in the midst of what we may not know. It is only with the element of authenticity that we might serve well the memories of those slaughtered and damaged.

Informative, compassionate, impassioned and empathetic poetry from an outside percpective is undeniably of value, I respect and often admire it.

For the second time in recent weeks I've had a couple of disappearing comments, fortunately both of which I have been able to read prior to their evaporation. I'm not sure what that says about me or those who chose to disappear them. All the same thanks for your brief appearances, however strange.

All the best,

David.

Landi Cruz

Thu 21st Mar 2024 17:59

Please forgive me for seeming obtuse, David, but...

It's been posited that it's the act of forgetting that leads to entropy--that state of being where change is no longer possible.

Aren't the headlines that we read only a means of emulsifying information into standardized and digestible form?

I once heard the story of a man upon whom many would throw insult by way of his simplicity. But, in fact, he bore the scars of a job in a war which required him to load, body by body, the dead of his countrymen onto a big green truck.

I'm sorry. That story is his, I know. But it exists and that story deserves to be told.

I have recently been afforded time by my job to study the work of Tim O'Brien. He was of interest to me before my appointed time to address him before my classes, and I'm very sorry that I'll only be given time enough to cover his writing according to the standards by which they'll be assessed..

.."so it goes"...

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