ajfrobisher

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the poems of tony frobisher

A Hundred Tongues

May 19, 2020
1 min

A Hundred Tongues

A Hundred Tongues In freedom's name they came And fought, to fall and lie, No answers sought, No questions why. The Canadians, Jamaicans, Americans and Indians. The Aussies, Kiwis, Irish and South Africans. The brave, the young, A million men, In a hundred tongues. So remember well 'England's Glorious Victory' Where the Scots and Welsh, Stood as one in history. For as they forever lay, And the war was won. We remembered them. The brave, the young. A mill

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Forgive and Forget

Jan 28, 2019
1 min

Forgive and Forget

What has marked mankind has been a propensity to evil, to warfare, to conflict, to acts of inhumanity. But also the willingness to forgive, to repent and to find love and tolerance and light in the time of deepest darkness and savagery. However, while we may ultimately forgive, we must never forget. the #war #peace #conflict #forgiveness #tolerance #remembrance

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Moon Star

The Sun Wept, Cold (Morning Attack)

Nov 11, 2018
1 min

The Sun Wept, Cold (Morning Attack)

The Sun Wept, Cold (Morning Attack) A frozen sun emerged From the grasp of an icy night. Imagined warmth from the glow, But it was just an illusion. Uniformed shapes tossed and shivered. Eyes flickering in dreams, Shaking in fear of morning. The nightmares of sleep More welcome than the reality That awaited the day. No heat. No warmth. No comfort. A stinging sun desertion, As dark cold surrounded everything. Bones, brittle that ached And cracked like splintering twigs. Th

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The Guns Have Gone

Nov 10, 2018
1 min

The Guns Have Gone

The Guns Have Gone The guns have all gone And the poppies grow where we fell For we have gone too __________________________________________________________________ Never forget. 100 years since the Great War ended. And the sacrifice and the unprecedented loss of life, a generation gone, still matters today. That it was repeated 20 or so years later is unfathomable. #remembrance #armistice #war #peace #haiku #warpoetry #firstworldwar

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Send Not Your Men

Nov 9, 2018
1 min

Send Not Your Men

Send Not Your Men Send not your men We have no more need for them The only sound, dawn-lit chorus birds There is stillness now, a silence heard And the guns have fallen silent too And the mist that hung anew As morning broke, was not smoke Of battle or gun. And it did not choke The fields no longer scattered with the bodies of friends The march of death at last at end So light up a cigarette and boil some tea There'll be no more fighting for the dead, or me A

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The Poppy

Nov 8, 2018
1 min

The Poppy

The Poppy A single poppy Bent in sorrowed bitter wind Bowed in remembrance _____________________________ 11/11/18 - 11/11/2018 A haiku for Remembrance Day. 100 years since the end of the first world war. We must never take for granted nor forget the sacrifice of so many. #remembrance #war #commemoration #history

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Hope In Darkness

Nov 6, 2018
1 min

Hope In Darkness

Hope in Darkness (Armistice Centenary Poem) And all around Fields churned to Black and death. Life and colour Bled and drained. The world was darkness. As if colour Had never existed. A world of nonexistence Erased to nothing. A lull, a crack In thunder skies Revealed colour. Hope distant, Almost untouchable. Eyes closed, And black turned life To vivid colour Death was no more. Only hope. _____________________________ A poem in commemoration of the centenary to mark 100

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Fountain ~ Haiku

Anticipation__Walk through winter trees_

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