wheat
seed brushed past
born rises
on life breeze
advancing in ranks
of Devon horses our horses
sabres flash point
out foreign death waiting
hunger hidden at firing lines
horse hooves
strike stride stride
splatter splatter splattering
screams in surge wind
shed death throes
stake hearts fear bitten
ploughboys
stripped
of horses
ploughboys
stripped
of dead horses
dying
as we go dying
in charging rows
machine gunned
monstrous
mechanical murders
chatter chatter
chatter disintegrating
flesh mutters
hear the rounds
hear the rounds
hear the rounds
strike home
strike home breaking
muscles bones
uniform vests
sprout bloom red
crimson flowers
expectations
run rampant hawks
consume doves
in dirt bursts
youth bleeding
rich blood red roses
Copyright © Terence George Craddock
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
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