It’s Friday and time for my Guest Writer Spot. If anyone would like their writing to appear on my blog, please get in touch. I’m looking for stories and articles (up to 2000 words) and poems (up to 40 lines). You can contact me here or by e-mail: esthernewton@virginmedia.com
Here is another thought-provoking poem from Gordon Simmonds:
Paschaendaele
Today the children play and the green fields echo with their laughter.
Not like then.
Then, there were no children.
Cold cloying mud subsumed the green fields,
And only satan and the shell shocked laughed.
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Now, people live and love and work and sleep and dream of better things.
Not like then.
Back then the people fled in fear before the guns.
Before the guns created blood stained pools of corpse infested water.
Before the hell immortalized in prose and verse
Broke into the dreams of simple men.
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