This poem I created myself for the story "Deirdre" where Sargent James Murphy the Watchful has an important role (mostly as a ghost).1080Please respect copyright.PENANAwYwwh6gYIV
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,1080Please respect copyright.PENANA0PgCUvdDD0
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,1080Please respect copyright.PENANAtY0komoomr
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs1080Please respect copyright.PENANAxxvUfFJoCK
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.1080Please respect copyright.PENANAaW5BX9jtGQ
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots1080Please respect copyright.PENANAiLsmSeGqXk
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;1080Please respect copyright.PENANAQT5dqquB6I
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots1080Please respect copyright.PENANAeyiBhZZ4nE
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.1080Please respect copyright.PENANAIItGqVTelD
Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling,1080Please respect copyright.PENANAMq5kJy8h6X
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;1080Please respect copyright.PENANAdszYJxcJxj
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,1080Please respect copyright.PENANArzZl6xBMgf
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime . . .1080Please respect copyright.PENANApuuWy4J3qg
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,1080Please respect copyright.PENANALMyttXXdhO
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.1080Please respect copyright.PENANAAwfIMrTqjX
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,1080Please respect copyright.PENANAlOwLyYxQda
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.1080Please respect copyright.PENANAGn309RaQRA
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace1080Please respect copyright.PENANAvXh8bN3kGz
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,1080Please respect copyright.PENANAAHJGRUtAI6
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,1080Please respect copyright.PENANAYNBmhvan4e
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;1080Please respect copyright.PENANAxvp8ZiuAmu
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood1080Please respect copyright.PENANAy9wbuhKhUR
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,1080Please respect copyright.PENANAIf9xoRWyTL
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud1080Please respect copyright.PENANAmtN4wBehwG
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,1080Please respect copyright.PENANAoyUxbv6eBi
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest1080Please respect copyright.PENANAtDUoVVB63w
To children ardent for some desperate glory,1080Please respect copyright.PENANAgcFcaWRoEM
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est1080Please respect copyright.PENANATMIsK8VQFG
Pro patria mori.
Wilfred Owen1080Please respect copyright.PENANAgiQ1gSKMyS
8 October 1917