<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=340133" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Great War Poems</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The same old soldiers walking along the same old skyline</div><div style="margin:10px 0">2.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dead hand through the sandbags reaching out for the cream­and ­white butterfly</div><div style="margin:10px 0">3</div><div style="margin:10px 0">mud/water under duckboards/mud/rats scamper in starshell darkness/mud/smell of shit and rotting bodies/mud/resting your sweaty forehead on the sandbags OVER THE TOP the first men in the lunar landscape.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">4.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What did you do to the Great Whore, Daddy?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">5.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poppies slightly out­of­focus and farmcarts bringing in the peaceful dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">6.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The ghost of Wilfred Oven selling matches outside the Burlington Arcade.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">7.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Seafog. Red flaring lights from the shore batteries. The roar of shells rattle of machineguns. Water running in the bilges. My feet slipping on the damp cobbles of the quayside.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">8.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">DON'T BE VAGUE ­ BLAME GENERAL HAIG.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">9.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">four white feathers clutched in a blood­stained envelope</div><div style="margin:10px 0">10. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">a skull nestling in a bed of wild strawberries/boots mouldering green with fungus/saplings thrusting through rusting helmets/sunken barges drifting full of leaves down autumn rivers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Adrian+Henri">Adrian Henri</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=340133" data-title="Great War Poems de Adrian Henri" data-description="I. The same old soldiers walking along the same old skyline 2. Dead hand through the sandbags reaching out for the cream­and ­white butterfly 3 mud/water under duckboards/mud/rats scamper in starshell darkness/mud/smell of shit and rotting ..."></div> </div> </div>

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