The endearing images of the Great War
Are of bayonet charges knowing the score
Men pitted at other men in barbed wired trench lines
But death and maiming occurred when it came in kind
...
Read full text
Graphic and gruesome
Very effective poetic description
machine guns at 18 rounds a second not to yield
ripping flesh and limb to shreds.
Maybe nuclear annihilation in a millisecond is more humane
Poems are the property of their respective owners. All information has been reproduced here for educational and informational purposes to benefit site visitors, and is provided at no charge...
Graphic and gruesome Very effective poetic description machine guns at 18 rounds a second not to yield ripping flesh and limb to shreds. Maybe nuclear annihilation in a millisecond is more humane