' ' ' Military Tattoo Poem by Dónall Dempsey

' ' ' Military Tattoo

Rating: 2.6


General Jan Zika
issued his orders

from his
death bed

that his skin be taken
& made into a drum

so that
in years to come

It could be
beaten

to stir on men
to war.

A soldier down to his skin.

200 years later
it sounds its grim tattoo

ushering in the brutality
of the 30 Years War.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Onelia Avelar 01 July 2009

Interesting subject taken from the history, interpreted in a unique modern manner, absolutely respectless to the militarism and the institution of war in general...

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Dónall Dempsey

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Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, Eire.
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