Among Those Killed In The Dawn Raid Was A Man Aged A Hundred Poem by Dylan Thomas

Among Those Killed In The Dawn Raid Was A Man Aged A Hundred

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When the morning was waking over the war
He put on his clothes and stepped out and he died,
The locks yawned loose and a blast blew them wide,
He dropped where he loved on the burst pavement stone
And the funeral grains of the slaughtered floor.
Tell his street on its back he stopped a sun
And the craters of his eyes grew springshots and fire
When all the keys shot from the locks, and rang.
Dig no more for the chains of his grey-haired heart.
The heavenly ambulance drawn by a wound
Assembling waits for the spade's ring on the cage.
O keep his bones away from the common cart,
The morning is flying on the wings of his age
And a hundred storks perch on the sun's right hand.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
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Castellenas John 03 April 2019

A powerful poem. No winner in war.

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Susan Williams 05 January 2016

He drowns his reader in a rampaging flood of words but words so skillfully strung together to create a building emotion and through the emotion understanding of the reason the poet wrote this.

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Dawn Fuzan 06 May 2014

wow this is so touching

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Brian Jani 26 April 2014

Awesome I like this poem, check mine oit

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Sylva Portoian 26 February 2010

I think someone should clean Nenita's letter please.

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Dylan Thomas

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