What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?

— Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle

Can patter out their hasty orisons…

– Wilfred Owen

    • Flying SquidOP
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      241 year ago

      Two of Britain’s most highly-regarded poets, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, who I quoted above, both wrote their best poetry while serving in the trenches of WWI. Owen because he died going over the top.

    • @Hotdogman
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      51 year ago

      Poems be from the woke people. Damn kids and their poetry.