Tag: war

• The fearless cannot flee

  The fearless cannot flee, even as those holding walls fall to scree They see no danger, death seems not only distant but an impossibility They ride out from the safety of the inner keep to the overtaken streets Blades in hand, shaken aloft, you will never take us alive, they adopt Bear fury, conjuring from…

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  26th Aug 2024

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• Violence of cavalry charge

  Come to drain the boils of rancid cancer The needle wielding horsemen handsome Lancers on panting horses Coming down a painted mountain Like a flood coming to drown them On the backs of sweating four legged panzers Black breathy sweating panthers, lathered flanks like tough leather Sinewy legs, much rider and ridden faced together One…

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  18th Aug 2024

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• Great war it was

  When order flies and chaos thrives When skydown bombs cause men to dive In sucking mires, where men and horses die I employ a wild strategy to help me survive; As soon as I hear rattling guns, I salute immediately If anyone tries to shoot me, I’ll die with my boots Scopes will train on…

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• Blitz Blitz Blitz

  Steel screaming reaping reavers like terrifying pteradactyls Spear’s tip, provisions at the rear fortifying each taken inch, sight unreal Bends yet at British steel; years more we can take! say they, no mayday No surrender, go hell for leather, rusted squares on metal stretchers Long stretches of blasted city All scree, choking debris, cleft masonry…

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  1st Aug 2024

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• Siegecraft

  All winds change, even Emperors can be caged Rage unchanged since ancient today, still ranging At being’s heart, man cart of sacred parts ill custodian Oils stowed for such events I toss from ramparts Around me buildings exploding, showering hot debris below Amidst smoke, standing with tattered cloak My name by hammerous Gods spoken, known…

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  24th Jul 2024

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