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war memorials

Twenty Years Ago - by J. B. Salmond

{ Poem }

August 1934 There’s a thin rain of music comes across the poppied corn,    Across the poppied corn and the sun-splashed sea,Crying, ‘Who’s a-going venturing, a-venturing, a-venturing,    Who’s a-going venturing with all a man can be?’O, listen, listen, listen, for it’s far, far away,    The dim remembered country where the ghostly pipers blow,Across […]

Remembering Then, Remembering Now - by Stuart A. Paterson

{ Poem }

Who are we remembering? / Millennia of the distant, recent dead, / all men, women, children lost to / wars…

Craiglockhart - by Brian Johnstone

{ Poem }

Sassoon, the elder, Sunday golfer; / Owen, bookish, gangly, pale – mingling / with the queue for the refectory.

Yper - by Ian A. Olson

{ Poem }

At length grandfather walked the Ypres road
/ From Poperinghe, to where the army laid
/ (At Hagle Dump) the remnants of his son:
/ A…

Lewis - by Iain Crichton Smith

{ Poem }

From the War Memorial
/ we see Lewis entirely.
/ For this place they died,
/ the new houses, the smell of seaweed,
/ the rivers,
/ an old woman…

The Soldiers’ Cairn - by Mary Symon

{ Poem }

Gie me a hill wi’ the heather on’t,
/ An’ a reid sun drappin’ doon,
/ Or…

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