by LeopardGecko - ACS on November 10th, 2009

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What's a War poem that gets you most. Mine's Dulce et decorum est?

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  • by Bowen on November 10th, 2009

    Bowen

    "The Young British Soldier", Rudyard Kipling

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  • by L. Taylor on November 11th, 2009

    L. Taylor

    Letters From War:

    She walked to the mailbox
    On that bright summers day
    Found a letter from her son
    In a war far away

    He spoke of the weather
    And good friends that he'd made
    Said I'd been thinking 'bout dad
    And the life that he had
    Thats why I'm here today
    And that the end he said
    You are what I'm fighting for
    It was the first of the letters from war

    She started writing
    You're good and you're brave
    What a father that you'll be someday
    make it home
    make it safe

    She wrote every night as she prayed

    Late in December
    A day she'll not forget
    Oh her tears stained the paper
    With every word that she read

    It said "I was up on a hill
    I was out there alone
    When the shots all rang out
    And bombs were exploding
    And thats when I saw him
    He came back for me
    And though he was captured
    A man set me free
    And that man was your son
    He asked me to write to you
    I told him i would, oh I swore"
    It was the last of the letters from war

    And she prayed he was living
    Kept on believing
    And wrote every night just to say

    You are good
    And you're brave
    what a father that you'll be someday
    Make it home
    Make it safe
    Still she kept writing each day

    Then two years later
    Autumn leaves all around
    A car pulled in the driveway
    And she fell to the ground
    And out stepped a captain
    Where her boy used to stand

    He said "mom I'm following orders
    From all of your letters
    And I've come home again",
    He ran into hold her
    And dropped all his bags on the floor
    Holding all of her letters from war

    Bring him home
    Bring him home
    Bring him home

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  • by Slightly less anonymous on November 11th, 2009

    Slightly less anonymous

    That gets me the most?

    deep in the gut, in an unsettling way:
    “APO 96225” by Larry Rottman
    "Naming of Parts" by Henry, Reed
    "Prodigy" by Charles Simic

    in the gut, but not unsettling, not in the same way:
    “Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries” by A.E. Housman
    "The Diameter of the Bomb" by Yehuda Amichai
    “Losses” by Randall Jarrell


    in the gut, but entirely differently, there's a sense of hope:
    "Finding My Old Battalion Command Post" by W.D. Ehrhart

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