Pawns



Who hungers still
After the holocaust?
Baby mourns at Mother's tortured breast
While young men venture homeward
Armies of despair

What imagery of war remains
When the battlefield is cleared?
Forlorn lovers lost against the bloodied clay
Virgin brides again unbridled...
victims of the heart

Who questions raise above the din
The eternal call to arms?
Virgins, young men, babies all?
Believers still in fairy tails
Disciples of ‘the cause'
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Submitted on October 11, 2012

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 426
Words 70
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5

John Walduck

I am not a young man any more - and I've been about a bit. I've had good times, I've had bad times, and at times I've lived in the gutter. I've also seen the light, and I try to reflect this in my humanity... but being human keeps getting in the way of that! I think that's where my poetry comes from. Some of it goes back 30 years, and the rest from the years between. It reflects my socio-political views and some of my personal heartaches, and is often dark and searching and hard-hitting. But hey - isn't that life..? more…

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