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Junkie Brewster (301 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 09:54 AM Original message |
In honor of Memorial Day: Favorite war poems |
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Junkie Brewster (301 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 09:56 AM Response to Original message |
1. Here's another one I thought about often in the run up to the current Gulf war |
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cwydro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 03:58 AM Response to Reply #1 |
10. Wilfred Owen |
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Old Troop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-01-10 09:29 PM Response to Original message |
2. Don't have a poem. My pediatrician was a WWI veteran who had sucked |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-01-10 10:33 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Mr. Brickbat's great-grandfather did his WWI service by testing gas masks with real gas. |
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Prisoner_Number_Six (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-01-10 09:39 PM Response to Original message |
3. Here's one I wrote many years ago |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-01-10 10:09 PM Response to Original message |
4. e.e. cummings |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-01-10 10:32 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. That's the first one I thought of. |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-01-10 10:36 PM Response to Original message |
7. Not a poem, a short story. "On the Rainy River" by Tim O'Brien. Devastating. |
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Silver Swan (805 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-01-10 11:23 PM Response to Original message |
8. These |
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murielm99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 02:40 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Thank you for the Randall Jarrell. |
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