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The End
2023-12-06The End After the blast of lightning from the east, The flourish of loud clouds, the Chariot throne, After the drums of time have rolled and ceased An...
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Disabled
2023-12-06Disabled He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark, And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey, Legless, sewn short at elbow. Through the park Voices ...
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Wild with all Regrets
2023-12-06Wild with all Regrets (Another version of "A Terre".) To Siegfried Sassoon My arms have mutinied against me —— brutes! My finger...
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A Terre
2023-12-06A Terre (Being the philosophy of many Soldiers.) Sit on the bed; I'm blind, and three parts shell, Be careful; can't shake hands now; never sh...
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Conscious
2023-12-06Conscious His fingers wake, and flutter up the bed. His eyes come open with a pull of will, Helped by the yellow may-flowers by his head. A blind-cord...
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Smile, Smile, Smile
2023-12-06Smile, Smile, Smile Head to limp head, the sunk-eyed wounded scanned Yesterday's Mail; the casualties (typed small) And (large) Vast Booty from ou...
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Futility
2023-12-06Futility Move him into the sun —— Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke him, even in Franc...
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The Chances
2023-12-06The Chances I mind as 'ow the night afore that show Us five got talking, —— we was in the know, "Over the top to-morrer; boys, we...
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Exposure (2)
2023-12-06II Pale flakes with lingering stealth come feeling for our faces ——We cringe in holes, back on forgotten dreams, and stare, snow-dazed, De...
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Exposure (1)
2023-12-06Exposure I Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knife us . . . Wearied we keep awake because the night is silent . . . Low drooping ...