by Neville Hymus | Jan 21, 2014 | Poetry
A hundred years have come and gone, But here we stand, heads bowed as one. On the air the sounds of bugle and prayer, In our hearts sadness, regret and thanks we share. To those who fell then, to keep all safe, From Tyranny, Greed, Stupidity and strafe. “The Great...
by Neville Hymus | Nov 11, 2013 | Poetry
My eyes are streaming as I stumble around, “What’s happening Sarge?” is the only sound. The guns are silent but the noise still great, Men’s voices cry out, not knowing their fate. Bodies underfoot, I trip and I fall, Over comrades and rifles, over wire...
by Neville Hymus | Nov 6, 2013 | Poetry
The War has raged on, for 6 months or more, But from the grounds of the battlefields, flowers now soar. It’s Spring in Europe, the time for new life, Who would have thought of this World full of strife. Seas of poppies stretch for mile upon mile, From the East...
by Neville Hymus | Nov 6, 2013 | Poetry
To War he was called in 1914, This beautiful young lad, barely eighteen. To battlefields, so far from home, He, with his comrades, but still so alone. With smells of sulphur, cordite and iron, They fought in a world that was so foreign. His hopes and his dreams now so...
by Neville Hymus | Nov 6, 2013 | Poetry
There is a time in my life, from which, I , recoil, When we were called to Arms, on our home soil. To defend, not to fight against an invisible foe, Each face that passes, are they friendly, who knows? In this beautiful land they would take up the gun, Sister against...
