Friday, May 13, 2016
Phantom Of The Somme Comments
Rating: ★5.0
I recall a distant memory, of the time I spent at war
I often wonder what the point, what really was it for
But something else remembered too, even now it brings a chill
The piper at the gates of dawn, to this day I hear him still
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3/14/2026 10:13:44 PM # 1.0.0
War is terrible but it has produced poems which linger in the memory as do the piper's notes. Wilfred Owen's Futility and poems by Guiseppe Ungaretti on the Italian Front and Apollinaire in France and Keith Douglas in the 2nd World War. Yours is very moving too. Tom Billsborough