Colin Ian Jeffery Soldier Poems

(Iraq and Afghanistan)


Far from home
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(World War One 1914-18)

Private Tommy Atkins, seventeen
Waits, rifle and bayonet fixed
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Tears for a fallen soldier
Lost to a mother's kiss
Father's hugs
Siblings love and support.
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Dear God hear me
Get me safely home
Away from this hell on earth
Back to those I love.
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He fell and died
Bloody on a foreign battlefield
Thinking himself forgot.
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He fell dying
Bloody on a foreign battlefield
Thinking himself forgot.
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