This poem I created myself for the story "Deirdre" where Sargent James Murphy the Watchful has an important role (mostly as a ghost).1117Please respect copyright.PENANAdirzvWIFeW
If you are interested in the story check it out in fictionpress.com under the name "Deirdre".
All I see is black and red
Knowing it, I quiver with dread.
Going on for nights and days without water and bread.
Waiting in the dark, mostly waiting for the dead.
Grasping tightly to the rifle for your life
Following a fog where you fling a courageous dive.
While the politicians sit, having their tea at five
We fight to survive.
By James Murphy
I got the inpiration through a real poem written by a soldier who sadly died a year before the war ended, perhaps you know it.
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DULCE ET DECORUM EST
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,1117Please respect copyright.PENANAyCh1M2ODfp
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,1117Please respect copyright.PENANAHLOeQmyKJq
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs1117Please respect copyright.PENANAGTkeBeFYjL
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.1117Please respect copyright.PENANAtxkUKJmTgr
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots1117Please respect copyright.PENANAKEnAvB6mmO
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;1117Please respect copyright.PENANABwSVIWEtne
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots1117Please respect copyright.PENANANSyRRXHZm6
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.1117Please respect copyright.PENANAZ8padcMQnG
Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling,1117Please respect copyright.PENANA4O4We6VL9G
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;1117Please respect copyright.PENANA6imKhP74je
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,1117Please respect copyright.PENANANIZaR1QhrV
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime . . .1117Please respect copyright.PENANAl5yDhQMIgC
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,1117Please respect copyright.PENANAkSFmEgPu3y
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.1117Please respect copyright.PENANA3qtDhEb43S
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,1117Please respect copyright.PENANAkWhM0iVq62
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.1117Please respect copyright.PENANAyBhpIQaeiU
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace1117Please respect copyright.PENANAp65f51dvct
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,1117Please respect copyright.PENANAHVCvvXvjcQ
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,1117Please respect copyright.PENANAEOD7hyndmH
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;1117Please respect copyright.PENANAafOdmtl9oP
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood1117Please respect copyright.PENANA1USSxxVk5t
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,1117Please respect copyright.PENANAfvEwWbRWqM
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud1117Please respect copyright.PENANAyBiFbEyjOh
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,1117Please respect copyright.PENANAa0JpuJsd8k
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest1117Please respect copyright.PENANAOkgbNsJlFe
To children ardent for some desperate glory,1117Please respect copyright.PENANAqqWdlVXF4B
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est1117Please respect copyright.PENANArLxCnRKQPj
Pro patria mori.
Wilfred Owen1117Please respect copyright.PENANAKaZScHQDRb
8 October 1917