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Christmas Bells - by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

{ Poem }

I heard the bells on Christmas Day
/ Their old, familiar carols play,
/ And wild and sweet
/ …

Olive Tree - by Réne Stefanelli

{ Poem }

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 Andrew F. Giles

{ Poem }

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 Donald Campbell

{ Poem }

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 Anna Crowe

{ Poem }

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 Valerie Gillies

{ Poem }

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 James Robertson

{ Poem }

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 Krystyna Milobedzka

{ Poem }

(zapisy stanu wojennego)
/
/ ***
/
/ po narodzinach po smierciach po narodzinach
/
/ po latach o tu, w tym miejscu
/
/ troche blizej was troche siebie dalej
/
/ w mojej…

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