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Field Of Surnames (Free verse) by Caducus
Soft green walls.
Valleys of tin.
Whistle of death.
Shadows of life.
White blades of steel,
red blades of grass
brown holsters rise
from devils jaded.
Second wave charged
in a yellow rip-tide,
fell on pale islands
on khaki shores of froth.
Screams held no accents
but what of last whispers?
Margaret, Ethel, Mâam and why
till silence brought the patient fly
Hard grey walls.
Valleyâs of names.
Whistling wind
wooden platoons
leave fleck paint shadows
on dying Poppies.
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