WALKING THE KILLING FIELDS (WORLD WAR ONE TODAY)(ADDISHANS)
Today - the battlefields of a hundred years agoare planted with crops - wheat - potatoes - sugar beet &CO
walk across the fields left fallow - resting - fore a year or so
look down at your feet - a you do - kick the soil - as you walk
you will find bullets some not spent - fired - bullets ,
be carfull - as you walk and kick the soil beneath your feet - fore no far down in the field lay shells - unfired - still a live - hand thrown bombed - still live - dangerous - even today - one hundred years since some do still contain explosive charges - many contain gas - mustard gas - should such a gas shell ,go off - and get that in your lungs - then - well - death - is nasty! Well you will drown! Should a light rain fall
should a go off shell gas go off - will fill ten tent - killing all with in - on your flesh - blisters - erupet - burn - nasty - I an sure you will agree
the farmers find UXBs , by the score! Lay then on the side - fore the army to pick up - and render them safe - or - explode them
the battlefields of WW1 , are still deadly to day - will be fore another hundred years!
The crop is not just bullets - shells - barbwire - the liter of war
nay - the fields of death - give up the dead - through out the year - finally given a burial - a headstone - with out their name - really - some are given back heir name
as you wake the battlefields - and kick the soil - you may kick an helmet - bend down
scrape away soil - pick up the helmet - inside you may find a scull - grinning up to you
you may find bits of men - a finger bone - a foot in a boot - remains of a soldier of misfortune - blown to bits by a shell - that did explode - parts scull - jaw bone - teeth - shin bones - ribs - remains - of direct hits - remains of what were liveing men - smashed - annihilated men
the battlefields of world one - have a story to tell
Not long ago in - 2001 - 24 - skeletons - were found - arms interlock - arm in arm
they were found
Only two were identified - given back their names. The other eight - lay with no name. Some say they were pals - joined up together - died with each other - at long last - giving a final burial - laid to rest.
ken d williams
The Dyslexic Wordsmith
Poetry by ken d williams
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Written on 2016-08-10 at 02:25
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