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One of the bloodiest and prolonged battles of the entire war, the British victory prompted one German General to comment that Germany 'had been brought near to certain destruction' by their losses. For chronological purposes this poem is set on 26th October 1917
POETRY FORM: Haiku (8)

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Passchendaele

Blind, wide open, eyes.
Dripping poppy petal tears.
Crimson rivers flow.

Fields transformed to mud.
Deep cut trenches scar the earth.
Wounds that will not heal.

Gas clouds drift from hell.
Death exhaled in fetid breath.
Lost boys fall like flies.

Ghosts haunt no mans land
searching for their bitter souls
in butchered bodies.

Finding empty shells,
cold bullet riddled corpses.
Nameless and broken.

First light cracks the dark
Holy, holy Seraphim
burn the battlefield.

No place for God here.
Just the stench of charnel house
and false politics.

Loss of Innocence
on Golgotha’s barbaric
ridge at Passchendaele.

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from Still In The War, Boys!, released October 3, 2014

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