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fallen

24 Friday Feb 2017

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On finding a neglected memorial to a forgotten war …

 

The bugle’s long faded call took with it all promise of eternal memory.
Names carved in stone often lasted not much longer than the generation
that composed them, causes became historical and worse, academic,
families adopted new priorities and the dead faded into unrecognised
faces staring from indistinct sepia cards.
Perhaps it was for the best: the solutions to conflicts were invariably the
result of pragmatism and essentially found in the present with an eye to
the future.
The fallen remained beyond all wanting; such is the nature of lives and
of deaths.

Lost

12 Thursday Jan 2017

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on passing a road side shrine

 

Haphazard blooms
From sodden bouquets
Roadside pathos
Empty armed,
Teddies with fixed grins
Clutch condolence cards
“Now with the Angels”
“Rest in Peace”
“Miss you”
Traffic, and time, passes