[Vision2020] Poetry for Jeremy, by Poets who Actually Fought
Melynda Huskey
mghuskey@hotmail.com
Wed, 5 Mar 2003 22:24:38 -0800
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There died a myriad,
And of the best, among them,
For an old bitch gone in the teeth,
For a botched civilization,
Charm, smiling at the good mouth,
Quick eyes gone under earth's lid,
For two gross of broken statues,
For a few thousand battered books.
~Ezra Pound
If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin,
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs
Bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,--
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
~Dulce et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen.
I knew a simple soldier boy
Who grinned at life in empty joy,
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
And whistled early with the lark.
In winter trenches, cowed and glum,
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain.
No one spoke of him again.
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.
~Suicide in the Trenches, Siegfried Sassoon
Melynda Huskey (once an English professor, always an English professor)
P.S. I could also produce a splendid and varied set of poetry in celebra=
tion of adultery--but I hesitate to conclude from that evidence that sexu=
al dalliance is the destiny of all humans.Get more from the Web. FREE MS=
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hesitate to conclude from that evidence that sexual dalliance is the des=
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