by Karl McLeish | Nov 6, 2010 | Stories
Seven am, still a trifle pissed from the night before is not the best time to be swaying off the end of a sharp pitchfork in any stable! Let alone those at the end of the mall. “How’s your head Jones?” I asked though I didn’t care! You see I was just lining myself up...
by Don Holmes | Oct 31, 2010 | Poetry
Why is the enemy always so right It’s his “duty” to kill and to maim But when our soldiers put a foot wrong The world will soon lay the blame The enemy wait at the side of the road And blow up our troops as they please It doesn’t matter whoever they kill They “work”...
by Malcolm G Bradshaw | Oct 31, 2010 | Poetry
Why do I feel guilty? Why did I survive? Why did so many friends die? Why am I still alive? I have seen terrible things That I was not meant to see All the memories of carnage Will always forever haunt me War is a terrible thing Taking soldiers in their prime War is...
by Malcolm G Bradshaw | Oct 31, 2010 | Poetry
Deep within the battlefield When the guns ceased to roar A lonely soldier stood in silence And couldn’t take no more His nerves were all shattered His face was ashen white No more strength to carry on He had lost the will to fight He fell down upon his knees And...
by John Sinclair | Sep 23, 2010 | Poetry
I stand there looking at my child He says to me that l am his hero And that he loves me very much l am rooted to the spot I cannot move for l am close to tears My child reaches out and holds onto my hand As l have held his so many times over the years And he says to...
