This poem I created myself for the story "Deirdre" where Sargent James Murphy the Watchful has an important role (mostly as a ghost).1166Please respect copyright.PENANA0UJfkHZkzI
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,1166Please respect copyright.PENANAHSyCjVvFXg
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,1166Please respect copyright.PENANAwBTtEhiZ3H
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs1166Please respect copyright.PENANANxOcuoHcXv
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.1166Please respect copyright.PENANADYvUeF32bs
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots1166Please respect copyright.PENANAV6Hq53CymM
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;1166Please respect copyright.PENANAPqQKerQCow
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots1166Please respect copyright.PENANA4WvtxqZBHf
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.1166Please respect copyright.PENANAOusNgIwbMw
Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling,1166Please respect copyright.PENANAxIsltVIFhX
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;1166Please respect copyright.PENANAtwJLidOSlO
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,1166Please respect copyright.PENANAgqfgURJC99
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime . . .1166Please respect copyright.PENANAPK8hRqID7u
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,1166Please respect copyright.PENANAQ4mnEbeEEc
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.1166Please respect copyright.PENANAh2D0nwnExL
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,1166Please respect copyright.PENANA20AJwBmpB4
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.1166Please respect copyright.PENANA4mXsiE2Imq
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace1166Please respect copyright.PENANAafM1jTPENY
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,1166Please respect copyright.PENANAh0dCQf8gvK
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,1166Please respect copyright.PENANAdqATi8VnAU
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;1166Please respect copyright.PENANAciFGVAHEsp
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood1166Please respect copyright.PENANAtw4ouuuuRt
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,1166Please respect copyright.PENANAJfcK6PNqpD
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud1166Please respect copyright.PENANA1RKUaxMiH4
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,1166Please respect copyright.PENANAh1bewnWQr2
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest1166Please respect copyright.PENANAB2pmfSFW1f
To children ardent for some desperate glory,1166Please respect copyright.PENANAs1tZ26CtPG
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est1166Please respect copyright.PENANAPvODriuqoy
Pro patria mori.
Wilfred Owen1166Please respect copyright.PENANADEG2vxtVan
8 October 1917