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HOW FUTILE ARE HER TEARS from kendrive ^Pro 210 days old

Another tale of separation - a Chinese soldier away at the fort and his young bride at home, weeping. BY THE GREAT WALL I Came the barbarian horde ...

IT WAS ALL SO LONG AGO from kendrive ^Pro 383 days old

SOLDIER An ordinary country man called on to do exceptional things in a European war that was none of his business, but he went anyway and, in Holland ...

MEANWHILE, ELSEWHERE . . . from kendrive ^Pro 394 days old

GREAT AUNT (1915) In soft spring sunlight, she cuts thick bars of salt and soap, pours draught vinegar, weighs sugar and packs purchases in brown ...

IN FLANDERS FIELDS from kendrive ^Pro 564 days old

[ ... ] A young soldier watched him write it. Cyril Allinson, a twenty-two year old sergeant-major, was delivering mail that day when he spotted ...

MOVE HIM INTO THE SUN from kendrive ^Pro 565 days old

I have been criticised for not posting any of the work of the established World War 1 Poets. To make amends, I am presenting today one of my favourite ...

POPPIES from kendrive ^Pro 570 days old

[ ... ] ends in soldier's grief On yonder field, furrows score the ground That once so clamoured, emits no sound Each bay a story long could tell, Of ...

THE PRIDE OF ALL THE VILLAGE from kendrive ^Pro 588 days old

[ ... ] MARRIED TO A SOLDIER The pride of all the village, The fairest to be seen, The pride of all the village That might have been a queen, Has bid ...