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Posts tagged with 'trenches'

• • IT'S A QUEER TIME
  • by kendrive
    

  • in poemsandprose.blog.co.uk

  • 37 days old
  • A very descriptive poem, by Robert Graves, of life in the trenches. IT'S A QUEER TIME It's hard to know if you're alive or dead When steel and fire go roaring through your head. One moment you'll be crouching at your gun Traversing, mowing heaps down half in fun: The next, you choke and clutch at your right breast - No time to think - leave all... more
  • Tags: + life , + poem , + poetry , + queer , + war
• • THE ENEMY
  • by kendrive
    

  • in poemsandprose.blog.co.uk

  • 51 days old
  • More from Isaac Rosenberg. It is not until the last word of the last line that he reveals what this poem is really about! Don't go there yet. THE IMMORTALS I killed them, but they would not die. Yea! all the day and all the night For them I could not rest or sleep, Nor guard from them nor hide in flight. Then in my agony I turned And made my... more
  • Tags: + enemy , + lice , + life , + louse , + poem , + war
• • ISAAC ROSENBERG
  • by kendrive
    

  • in poemsandprose.blog.co.uk

  • 52 days old
  • Over the next few weeks I shall be posting war poems by Isaac Rosenberg. It is possible that you have not heard of him and are unfamiliar with his work. He was certainly unknown to me until fairly recently. The following brief note is taken from the preface of "The Selected Poems of Isaac Rosenberg" (Edited by Jean Moorcroft Wilson - published... more
  • Tags: + first world war , + life , + poem , + poetry , + rosenberg ,