Poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy writes poem for First World War dead (Video)
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If poetry could tell it backwards, true, begin
that moment shrapnel scythed you to the stinking mud...
but you get up, amazed, watch bled bad blood
run upwards from the slime into its wounds;
see lines and lines of British boys rewind
back to their trenches, kiss the photographs from home -
mothers, sweethearts, sisters, younger brothers
not entering the story now to die and die and die.
Dulce - No - Decorum - No - Pro patria mori.
You walk away.
You walk away; drop your gun (fixed bayonet)
like all your mates do too -
Harry, Tommy, Wilfred, Edward, Bert -
and light a cigarette.
There's coffee in the square,
warm French bread
and all those thousands dead
are shaking dried mud from their hair
and queuing up for home. Freshly alive,
a lad plays Tipperary to the crowd, released
from History; the glistening, healthy horses fit for heroes, kings.
You lean against a wall,
your several million lives still possible
and crammed with love, work, children, talent, English beer, good food.
You see the poet tuck away his pocket-book and smile.
If poetry could truly tell it backwards,
then it would.
Carol Ann Duffy,
This is a poem I wrote about the First World War
Bastard mud
Human soup
Sucking me down
Loosing my boots
Liquid hell
Putrid smell
Cold and heavy
Can you tell
A sea of men
An ocean of shit
Cant seen to swim
I think I’ve been hit.
© Tony McNally
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In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If poetry could tell it backwards, true, begin
that moment shrapnel scythed you to the stinking mud...
but you get up, amazed, watch bled bad blood
run upwards from the slime into its wounds;
see lines and lines of British boys rewind
back to their trenches, kiss the photographs from home -
mothers, sweethearts, sisters, younger brothers
not entering the story now to die and die and die.
Dulce - No - Decorum - No - Pro patria mori.
You walk away.
You walk away; drop your gun (fixed bayonet)
like all your mates do too -
Harry, Tommy, Wilfred, Edward, Bert -
and light a cigarette.
There's coffee in the square,
warm French bread
and all those thousands dead
are shaking dried mud from their hair
and queuing up for home. Freshly alive,
a lad plays Tipperary to the crowd, released
from History; the glistening, healthy horses fit for heroes, kings.
You lean against a wall,
your several million lives still possible
and crammed with love, work, children, talent, English beer, good food.
You see the poet tuck away his pocket-book and smile.
If poetry could truly tell it backwards,
then it would.
Carol Ann Duffy,
This is a poem I wrote about the First World War
Bastard mud
Human soup
Sucking me down
Loosing my boots
Liquid hell
Putrid smell
Cold and heavy
Can you tell
A sea of men
An ocean of shit
Cant seen to swim
I think I’ve been hit.
© Tony McNally
Hackers break into MI5 web site It seems MI5 along with the MOD are a joke but not a very funny one. To say that its `unlikely` to have caused a breach of national security says it all really. The problem we have is the staff we have working for us at both department are a product of New Labour and as such anyone who fancies a go at it will get the opportunity especially of they follow the `common purpose` guidelines.
The MoD has today announced that regular statistics will be published detailing the numbers of military patients There will be more facts in a Harry Potter novel than this!
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Betrayed
The whole Country has been betrayed by the Socialist Labour Party.
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