I WERE NOT ALWAYS ABOUT RAIN AND THICK MUD (WORLD WAR ONE)

Some times in the trenches
The bullets were cracking
Machine guns rat a tatering
Sounds of wiz bangs
Crumpets of shells near and far , ether side
Behind in front of us , even hehind!

It were hot and sticky , just as 'orrible
Nasty as the wet and mud
All the same!

The heat encourage the lice
Who made the stitching of our
Uniforms , breeding ground for their eggs
We'd itch them , how we itched , till our
Blood ran some

We'd run a lighted candles up down the seems
Listen as eggs burst
Get it wrong , and trousers , shirts , jackets
Would fall apart , and we all surer had that happon!
I can tell you!

Then there were the rats , as big as cats
Na more like the size of bloody puppys!
At night when were trying to get some kip
Them rats , would run all over us
Tacking bights out of our fingers , noses , ears
Them rats like a bit of fresh living meet!
I suppose , it made a change from rotten corpses!

Then a different war broke out at night
We'd grab our spades , sharpened to a razor edge
Designed to make a mess of them Fritzs , in no mans land!
Or should them come calling unannounced!

Just the tool to hunt and mash the rats!
Hunt down them fooking rats all night , the gully ran wif their blood
We'd hang them up , our trophies of out nights work
Maybe after we snatched an hour or two's kip

Ken D Williams

The Dyslexic Wordsmith




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Written on 2014-03-12 at 00:26

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F.i.in.e Moods The PoetBay support member heart!
Eesh... horrible doesn't begin to describe what these men went through :s I have a sudden urge to scratch an itch and squirm with these descriptions! Powerful pictures and sensations come for me as I read this, it's well-written... *hugs* xx
2014-03-12



This is a nightmare right out of Dante's Inferno!! It's no wonder no one comes back from war intact.
Gives me the shivers~~~~~
Ashe
2014-03-12