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Boots

by Rudyard Kipling

INFANTRY COLUMNS

We're foot--slog--slog--slog--sloggin' over Africa --
Foot--foot--foot--foot--sloggin' over Africa --
(Boots--boots--boots--boots--movin' up an' down again!)
There's no discharge in the war!

Seven--six--eleven--five--nine-an'-tw enty mile to-day --
Four--eleven--seventeen--thirty-two the day before --
(Boots--boots--boots--boots--movin' up an' down again!)

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Exposure

by Wilfred Owen

I

1 Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knife us ...
2 Wearied we keep awake because the night is silent ...
3 Low drooping flares confuse our memory of the salient ...
4 Worried by silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous,
5 But nothing happens.

6 Watching, we hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire.
7 Like twitching agonies of men among its brambles.

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In Spite Of War

by Angela Morgan

In spite of war, in spite of death,
In spite of all man's sufferings,
Something within me laughs and sings
And I must praise with all my breath.
In spite of war, in spite of hate
Lilacs are blooming at my gate,
Tulips are tripping down the path
In spite of war, in spite of wrath.
"Courage!" the morning-glory saith;
"Rejoice!" the daisy murmureth,

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A Legend Of Truth

by Rudyard Kipling

Once on a time, the ancient legends tell,
Truth, rising from the bottom of her well,
Looked on the world, but, hearing how it lied,
Returned to her seclusion horrified.
There she abode, so conscious of her worth,
Not even Pilate's Question called her forth,
Nor Galileo, kneeling to deny
The Laws that hold our Planet 'neath the sky.
Meantime, her kindlier sister, whom men call
Fiction, did all her work and more than all,

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War Is Never Over

by Cecil L. Harrison

War is never over
Thought the treaties may be signed
The memories of the battles
Are forever in our minds

War is never over
So when you welcome heroes home
Remember in their minds they hold
Memories known to them alone

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Recent War Poems

War and Battle will Terribly Rattle to Unsettle ?

by mv venkataraman

Be busy like a honey-bee without fighting abnormally !
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See both sides is my plea and fighting is fully ugly !
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Do acts mainly to rescue and any fight is fiendish in my view !
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God will reward holy peace if we don't bombard fights to retard !
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Star ever entertains us, never entertains us war !
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War To Kill with Thrill ?

by mv venkataraman

Devil is war,
Evil acts are done,
Nil is peace,
Peril is severe,
Uphill is life,
Ill-deeds happen,
Thrill is lost,
Will is so bad,
"Kill" is its motto,
Fulfill deadly acts,

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Because we are just tired of seeing the war

by Aldo Kraas

Because we are just tired of seeing the war
So let stop throwing grenades
On the people that leave next door
To you
And embrace peace
That is my hope
For the people that are fighting
In the war overseas
They already killed a lot of
Innocent people

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Soldier 02

by Mario Odekerken

In the quiet of dawn,
a soldier stands,
the weight of duty
etched on his brow.

He carries the stories
of distant lands,
the echoes of sacrifice
in every heartbeat.

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Soldier

by Mario Odekerken

In the quiet of dawn,
a soldier stands,
the weight of duty
etched on his brow.

He carries the stories
of distant lands,
the echoes of sacrifice
in every heartbeat.

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