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On Passing the New Menin Gate
by Siegfried Sassoon
Who will remember, passing through this Gate,
The unheroic Dead who fed the guns?
Who shall absolve the foulness of their fate,—
Those doomed, conscripted, unvictorious ones?
Crudely renewed, the Salient holds its own.
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These are the words I threw out to David Niall Wilson when he asked for three words upon which he could base a poem.
Many others responded too and the results of his three word poems are here. There is not enough poetry in the modern [...]
While re-reading this poem I began to consider just how much power those words have in my life – may, might, should, could, would, must. How many times have I said “blah blah should have …” or something similar?
It is words like this that are invisible forces creating pressure [...]
With such diverse and extreme weather occurring in Australia it seems like a good time to revisit a poem that talks about this.
We are currently suffering from extreme heat & major bushfires in the south eastern states; with floods in the far north. The state of Victoria in particular [...]
In these days of gloom, doom and constant bad news it seems hard to take it all in. But sometimes it is not just a recitation of the facts we need. Sometimes poetry can sum it up better …
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot [...]
On the Slate website Hart Seely has collected some of the truly classic poems of our time – they are taken from briefings listed on the Dept of Defense website.
The Unknown
As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know [...]
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