09 Nov 2024 19:49:47
They answered the call
With mighty hearts, they took a stand
In the pursuit of liberty
They died on foreign land.
Those that made it home
Carry a burden within their soul
More years behind them now
Yet stories remain untold.
We may never understand it
Few hearts can comprehend
The courage one must possess
To rise and take a stand.
So I ask of you this
Dear friends and family
How will you remember
This most earnest legacy?
Will you bow your head in silence?
Offer a silent prayer?
Let's honour all they've sacrificed
For the freedoms we hold dear.
09 Nov 2024 20:48:47
Superb Bowie.
09 Nov 2024 21:58:41
Bowie, just wonderful mate …. ??.
09 Nov 2024 22:16:38
Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen 1917
What passing bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles’rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries for them; no prayers nor bells;
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,
The shrill demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.
What candles may he held to speed them all?
Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes
Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes.
The pallor of girls’ brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow dusk a drawing down of blinds.
Lt Owen of the Manchester Regiment was killed in action leading his men in France on November 4th 1918, exactly a week before the Armistice to the hour. He was awarded posthumously the Military Cross. His Mother received the telegram notifying her of his death on Armistice Day as the bells of Shrewsbury Cathedral ( his home town) were ringing to celebrate the end of the war…….
09 Nov 2024 23:16:28
Brilliant, but awful Stokey.
09 Nov 2024 23:33:48
You do some reading stokey, some deep meaning stuff. My wife is into all the same as she is a retired A level teacher.
10 Nov 2024 07:40:14
The man stood on the burning deck,
His pockets full of crackers,
You mean that type of (poetry), no!.
10 Nov 2024 07:44:07
Highly subjective.
10 Nov 2024 08:58:42
Very nice pieces there lads, RIP our fallen hero's.
10 Nov 2024 16:46:16
Amazing stokey son x.