This poem I created myself for the story "Deirdre" where Sargent James Murphy the Watchful has an important role (mostly as a ghost).1120Please respect copyright.PENANAhO3tj1SbrD
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,1120Please respect copyright.PENANA53tD93l40I
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,1120Please respect copyright.PENANAW7YVSJVC9V
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs1120Please respect copyright.PENANAuQSl1lNII0
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.1120Please respect copyright.PENANA4NDRHwdTFw
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots1120Please respect copyright.PENANAJkE5hh9oDM
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;1120Please respect copyright.PENANAPd6z8PMMGA
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots1120Please respect copyright.PENANAXphcalvGHz
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.1120Please respect copyright.PENANAjAxtaloMlt
Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling,1120Please respect copyright.PENANAd7k8zQS73n
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;1120Please respect copyright.PENANAOvHfwyOvhS
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,1120Please respect copyright.PENANALuZCGXXjDd
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime . . .1120Please respect copyright.PENANAm5xi4Eaotp
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,1120Please respect copyright.PENANAze4And5hVq
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.1120Please respect copyright.PENANA6To2oxYvJp
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,1120Please respect copyright.PENANAlBKCmOVyZl
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.1120Please respect copyright.PENANAqcIMnums9R
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace1120Please respect copyright.PENANAUvCKp3gc6F
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,1120Please respect copyright.PENANAKmADKiqN5w
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,1120Please respect copyright.PENANAB7WfTGGvkA
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;1120Please respect copyright.PENANAupERzus3qf
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood1120Please respect copyright.PENANAVLcSqI8Jzd
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,1120Please respect copyright.PENANAcn1ortoDNj
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud1120Please respect copyright.PENANANHf57SJcyK
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,1120Please respect copyright.PENANAW1x2GkfnrX
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest1120Please respect copyright.PENANA2buxikuzvP
To children ardent for some desperate glory,1120Please respect copyright.PENANAiwKdDRW6Qz
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est1120Please respect copyright.PENANA59PT8IhIxr
Pro patria mori.
Wilfred Owen1120Please respect copyright.PENANAnWAnSpS2dk
8 October 1917