Argonne Forest, at midnight, A sapper atands on guard. A star shines high up in the sky, bringing greetings from a distant homeland. And with a spade in his hand, He waits forward in the sap-trench. He thinks with longing on his love, Wondering if he will ever see her again. The artillery roars like [...]

As the team’s head-brass flashed out on the turn The lovers disappeared into the wood. I sat among the boughs of the fallen elm That strewed the angle of the fallow, and Watched the plough narrowing a yellow square Of charlock. Every time the horses turned Instead of treading me down, the ploughman leaned Upon [...]

At dawn the ridge emerges massed and dun In the wild purple of the glow’ring sun, Smouldering through spouts of drifting smoke that shroud The menacing scarred slope; and, one by one, Tanks creep and topple forward to the wire. The barrage roars and lifts. Then, clumsily bowed With bombs and guns and shovels and [...]

Microwave with packaging too This War’s for you No Secondhand – everything new This War’s for you A 4 by 4 won’t smaller do? This War’s for you Living in your plastic zoo This War’s for you The rubbish that just grew and grew This War’s for you The things you brought and threw This [...]

War is a game, It proves that the worst loss, Is a loss that was gained by a win, The blood is shed, The death is had, Utter depression, War happens over and over, It never stops, Peace is an illision, War is greedy, War has envy, War shows wriath, War enjoys gluttony, War gains [...]