I FOUND NO GLORY IN THE CEMETERY! (WW1 INSPIED)

Up the road from me
Is the municipal cemetery
Now full , no more room

In it lay a few of those who
Died hear
There are two parts
World War One and World War two

Canadians , one Australian , a Dutchman

Doted all around the cemetery are
Men , some woman died during both wars
Dead who died while serving in between wars

Civilians lay they as well , children killed in the wrong place wrong time
Killed by bombs dropped by German Gothers , targeting a gasometer March 1916
No gravestone now to mark where they lay

A grave with gravestone of a woman killed in 1942 killed by enemy action

In the Second Word War plot , lay R A F , pilots , beside Luftwaffe pilots

Has I have walked around , reading the headstones

I have yet to see the glory they died for , that put then there below the sod

Ken D Williams

The Dyslexic Wordsmith





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Written on 2014-11-12 at 20:04

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Soup in the Sand
Absolutely superb- those last two lines say it all. Brilliant write!!
2015-02-24



Ken!

I am happy to see you are still a member and producing awesome writing!

Your pal,

Richard
2014-12-22



The glory will be when the bombs stop falling and we as human beings learn to live together. I'm not too confident that will ever happen, but it doesn't hurt to dream. Good poem.
2014-11-14



It's very sad. And you are so right, there is no glory in the cemetery. Just the waste of lives who were so willing to give for others. So many lives lost.
2014-11-13