<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=544169" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Absent Drums</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I stumbled across a war Poet, in place in cold November<br>finding blank pictures, brief notices.<br>I saw falling soldiers, attention to line</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wanted to meet the author of those days know I didn't have to speak to him, all dead and awaking from unusual dreams.<br>Heavy with burst balloon face, eyes like a day in childhood, blurred and pastel.<br>Alive and hopeless, St George and the Dragon- monster still breathing.<br>He had time to shit himself, this shows a lack of imagination.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He tells me nothing! , has empty pockets.<br>a girl shares his photograph, holding her so close you could smell the paper she was made of.<br>a lover was here, the lips don't move, kiss dried worms in fresh roses.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Face down in grey waters, a rising and dying god, empty of soul.<br>war poet apart shows a lack of simile, he simply stinks and rots, glimmering.<br>I envy his insight, to find death before sleep, death in forgotten places, know the experience continue to write.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I read the War Verses: <br> dead boys alive, <br>buried flag and still wind in voices. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I read the war verses: <br>casting of absent drums, <br>echo of nameless trumpets</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This warrior of Empire farewell, recited soldier out of place with his poems of Christian failure and dying no death.<br>bitter cliches of pale angels and Englishmen, <br>brambles in Khaki mouldering.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We shall only forget them<br>make better slaughter of the years, remain all visual.<br>compose new words for hymnal apocalpyse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mark+Littler">Mark Littler</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=544169" data-title="Absent Drums de Mark Littler" data-description="I stumbled across a war Poet, in place in cold November finding blank pictures, brief notices. I saw falling soldiers, attention to line I wanted to meet the author of those days know I didn't have to speak to him, all dead and awaking from unusu..."></div> </div> </div>

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