This work , wonders some what. I try to convey , much , to maybe. My mind as it was thinking at the time. Feedback welcome.
The they said it were the war to end war , that were a bitter cynical laugh
Thar war lead to many endings but wars it did not!
Embers left smoldering , that lead to more wars
World War Two the biggest , largest , widest war of all
Embers still smoldering today
Those at home in blissful innocence , dammed right ignorance of war
Went of to That War , millions never to return
Those that did really talk of what they'd seen and did them self's
Harry Patch , the last survivor of the trenches spoke out about his time
In the blood , that mud , the lice , the stench of decaying body's
In the trenches he inhabited
Of going over the top , with his chums a Lewis Gun unit
Harry wounded , his chums all killed
Harry told of facing , a German , who kept on coming towards Harry
Harry did wont to kill the German , so he aimed low , still the German
Staggered on towards Harry , Harry aimed higher knee level , till the
German fell , Harry hopes the German did not die , almost certainly did
Poor bastard's all
So many died for Kings , Emperors , a President , country , and yes a God
Many new beginnings as endings true enough
Empires crashed , smashed , burnt
While others grew stronger , land grabbers
Grabbed from the dead rotten , decaying old empires
Killed off by that war to end all wars
New independent country's formed from the broken empires
New weapons of mass destruction M O D's to you and I
Machine guns , tanks , aircraft , artillery , gas
Barbwire , brought up sharp the cavalry , as a way to fight wars ended
Woman finally given the vote in Britain , full equality in 1928
A woman died for right to the vote , Emily Davison 1913
The woman of New Zealand given the vote 1893
Australian woman in 1908 , exercised in 1911 , due political shenanigans
No woman died obtaining the vote in New Zealand or Australia
Some times the oppressors are to clever by half , so shoot them self's in the
Foot
American woman , passed by congress 1919 , ratified 1920
Constitution amended
Cant but think , the American constitution over woman's right to vote
Then the American Constitution can be amended to take guns off the
Streets
Clarke's , left the office to go off to that war , many never came back
Woman took there place , the sectary replacing the departed Clarke's
Servants , took on the jobs of men gone off to that war , many never
To return
Woman the workforce through the war , trams , trains , factory's and all
Book reading , writing poetry , written by those barely literate
Not just the great and good , wrote war poetry , thee knows
The Great War , a curate's egg kind of war indeed
Ken D Williams
The Dyslexic Wordsmith
Poetry by ken d williams
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IT WERE A FUNNY NEW KIND OF WAR
It were a funny new kind of war , but with out that many laughsThe they said it were the war to end war , that were a bitter cynical laugh
Thar war lead to many endings but wars it did not!
Embers left smoldering , that lead to more wars
World War Two the biggest , largest , widest war of all
Embers still smoldering today
Those at home in blissful innocence , dammed right ignorance of war
Went of to That War , millions never to return
Those that did really talk of what they'd seen and did them self's
Harry Patch , the last survivor of the trenches spoke out about his time
In the blood , that mud , the lice , the stench of decaying body's
In the trenches he inhabited
Of going over the top , with his chums a Lewis Gun unit
Harry wounded , his chums all killed
Harry told of facing , a German , who kept on coming towards Harry
Harry did wont to kill the German , so he aimed low , still the German
Staggered on towards Harry , Harry aimed higher knee level , till the
German fell , Harry hopes the German did not die , almost certainly did
Poor bastard's all
So many died for Kings , Emperors , a President , country , and yes a God
Many new beginnings as endings true enough
Empires crashed , smashed , burnt
While others grew stronger , land grabbers
Grabbed from the dead rotten , decaying old empires
Killed off by that war to end all wars
New independent country's formed from the broken empires
New weapons of mass destruction M O D's to you and I
Machine guns , tanks , aircraft , artillery , gas
Barbwire , brought up sharp the cavalry , as a way to fight wars ended
Woman finally given the vote in Britain , full equality in 1928
A woman died for right to the vote , Emily Davison 1913
The woman of New Zealand given the vote 1893
Australian woman in 1908 , exercised in 1911 , due political shenanigans
No woman died obtaining the vote in New Zealand or Australia
Some times the oppressors are to clever by half , so shoot them self's in the
Foot
American woman , passed by congress 1919 , ratified 1920
Constitution amended
Cant but think , the American constitution over woman's right to vote
Then the American Constitution can be amended to take guns off the
Streets
Clarke's , left the office to go off to that war , many never came back
Woman took there place , the sectary replacing the departed Clarke's
Servants , took on the jobs of men gone off to that war , many never
To return
Woman the workforce through the war , trams , trains , factory's and all
Book reading , writing poetry , written by those barely literate
Not just the great and good , wrote war poetry , thee knows
The Great War , a curate's egg kind of war indeed
Ken D Williams
The Dyslexic Wordsmith
Poetry by ken d williams
Read 552 times
Written on 2013-07-02 at 16:15
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