This poem I created myself for the story "Deirdre" where Sargent James Murphy the Watchful has an important role (mostly as a ghost).1219Please respect copyright.PENANAVojNQwvhkl
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,1219Please respect copyright.PENANAF19xaNUuNL
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,1219Please respect copyright.PENANAWJbAPgEyht
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs1219Please respect copyright.PENANAoxBEUCEvi4
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.1219Please respect copyright.PENANArjdHcXlU72
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots1219Please respect copyright.PENANABKokbaQIUS
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;1219Please respect copyright.PENANA8A0GRUp3Vw
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots1219Please respect copyright.PENANAqXkl9JTL7k
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.1219Please respect copyright.PENANAcB3ztBHE58
Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling,1219Please respect copyright.PENANAY0RCF8xpgi
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;1219Please respect copyright.PENANA8BTUBPucaq
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,1219Please respect copyright.PENANABvgY7H8xqC
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime . . .1219Please respect copyright.PENANAcAQkAk0HuN
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,1219Please respect copyright.PENANApnAlNoak6Z
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.1219Please respect copyright.PENANA07SLKiQ2Df
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,1219Please respect copyright.PENANA5Idb7YASXk
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.1219Please respect copyright.PENANARnjVe5AUId
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace1219Please respect copyright.PENANAHSWEpIY98I
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,1219Please respect copyright.PENANAU0o5DYvRiU
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,1219Please respect copyright.PENANAayGYFulJoz
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;1219Please respect copyright.PENANA71mqYMOjxw
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood1219Please respect copyright.PENANAv6RQAX8Kf9
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,1219Please respect copyright.PENANAMg0XIee1BT
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud1219Please respect copyright.PENANAmBz6zMk6ze
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,1219Please respect copyright.PENANACtmQVBBU1Z
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest1219Please respect copyright.PENANApFDBG1VXx1
To children ardent for some desperate glory,1219Please respect copyright.PENANA1j1xAxq89C
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est1219Please respect copyright.PENANAkQXWQk8LZC
Pro patria mori.
Wilfred Owen1219Please respect copyright.PENANAzFvdW377hp
8 October 1917