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November 13, 2009
In Wounded Fields (2)
This is the second of the five poems plus prologue and epilogue in my 1996 'In Wounded Fields' compendium. (See yesterday blog) Remember that all the words in italics belong to the named poet and are extracted from his poetic works; the rest is just my personal commentary. Reading it again I find something disturbingly familiar in the questions asked by Coulson ... questions to which there really seem to be no answers even now other than the ones I gave and give again here in this imagined co...
November 12, 2009
In Memoriam
We have as always been much moved by the various WW1 Memorial Services. Not that WW1 or even WW2 'pales into insignificance' that which is happening today in Iraq and Afghanistan. A wasted young life is a wasted young life, no matter how many times it is repeated or by whatever act of human folly.
Throughout the '90's we had occasion to visit northern France on business and always (well, Dee always, me as opportunity arose) we visited the fields of conflict and the cemeteries resulting theref...
Throughout the '90's we had occasion to visit northern France on business and always (well, Dee always, me as opportunity arose) we visited the fields of conflict and the cemeteries resulting theref...
