Christmas Bells - by
I heard the bells on Christmas Day
/ Their old, familiar carols play,
/ And wild and sweet
/ …
war
Olive Tree - by
Some friendly soul, quite near old age,
/ when time to think is plenty, sits,
/ still spry enough, beneath an olive tree,
/ to take…
Soldier II - by
Brooke, R., 1914 & Other Poems (Complete Press,
/ 28th impression, 1920). Restrained, a story of memory,
/ navy-bound with a firmament of stains,…
Vietnam on My Mind - by
Gone doun ae Sunday to the back-green
/ to take her washing in, my wife was raped
/ up the back-passage by an unseen
/ unkent…
From the Hinterland - by
After a visit to the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh and especially for Kazimierz Kuczynski,
/ F.R.C.S. Edinburgh, and his…
Head: Sabre Wound - by
The strokes of a sabre
/ on his wan head –
/ those blows repeated
/ in the heat
/ of battle
/ where sabres whirl
/ like flames.
/
/ An attack
/ by a tiger
/ or…
Beelzebub Resurfaces - by
A girnin, greitin deil wis I –
/ I wis auld, and feelin aulder.
/ Syne the heatin system burst in Hell:
/ It wis cauld…
from Pamietam - by
(zapisy stanu wojennego)
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/
/ po narodzinach po smierciach po narodzinach
/
/ po latach o tu, w tym miejscu
/
/ troche blizej was troche siebie dalej
/
/ w mojej…