This poem I created myself for the story "Deirdre" where Sargent James Murphy the Watchful has an important role (mostly as a ghost).1077Please respect copyright.PENANA1awyKMkyUM
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,1077Please respect copyright.PENANA2LEEEJC2tH
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,1077Please respect copyright.PENANAjDH1NEL4cJ
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs1077Please respect copyright.PENANA7SRgtUBYEm
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.1077Please respect copyright.PENANAuUbB3LgprO
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots1077Please respect copyright.PENANAvW6A9Fzm8w
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;1077Please respect copyright.PENANAWjoxVBd09c
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots1077Please respect copyright.PENANAoRuwTtEH28
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.1077Please respect copyright.PENANAGmhKFRUAtv
Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling,1077Please respect copyright.PENANA2aGnSNBZiJ
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;1077Please respect copyright.PENANAwKgRf0UjIe
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,1077Please respect copyright.PENANAMmCETxlqDh
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime . . .1077Please respect copyright.PENANA324jztOWcj
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,1077Please respect copyright.PENANASx9k0S9Kqt
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.1077Please respect copyright.PENANAMdVqLCGxGn
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,1077Please respect copyright.PENANAmysIMVUWAc
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.1077Please respect copyright.PENANAEKvHJ8aYQU
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace1077Please respect copyright.PENANA2v3Sz1S8mY
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,1077Please respect copyright.PENANAsehr3t8lrt
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,1077Please respect copyright.PENANAUkKtpVBNI8
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;1077Please respect copyright.PENANA1DH2zVyOvn
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood1077Please respect copyright.PENANAyINyp9cXXC
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,1077Please respect copyright.PENANAmVQOS4RhqP
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud1077Please respect copyright.PENANAIDQhjpOOoC
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,1077Please respect copyright.PENANAMNyTbKXtYw
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest1077Please respect copyright.PENANA3VFxUbzyuv
To children ardent for some desperate glory,1077Please respect copyright.PENANAtcULnCxWif
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est1077Please respect copyright.PENANAkpiOwWOFQg
Pro patria mori.
Wilfred Owen1077Please respect copyright.PENANA6MotLq9OPw
8 October 1917