Opening Page To My New Novel On World War 1 Poem by Kurt Philip Behm

Opening Page To My New Novel On World War 1

Rating: 4.3


The rain stopped
the sun was gone

Mercy was in
short supply

Smoke hung over
the battlefield

A bugler in the mud
with his cry

Bodies were being
carted off

New songs were written
to the dead

Just another day in
World War 1

That started and ended
in dread

(Villanova Pennsylvania: November,2014)

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Savita Tyagi 25 July 2016

And that war is still going on. Smoke hangs now over cities. Where body parts are scattered with bomb blasts. A gray shadow of death and sadness over every body, every where.

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Raj Rajan 25 July 2016

Nice poem. I liked it. Rajan

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Sandra Feldman 25 July 2016

Has the ambience! We can feel the gray sadness of death and war. So useless, painful, terrifying. Well done!

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