In a Flanders War Cemetery

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    In a Flanders War Cemetery
    A lark.

    Pinpoint of shiny silver sound

    In a perfect azure sky.

    Beneath my feet

    The youth of a generation lie in

    Rank and file

    Row on row

    Present and correct.

    They closed their tortured eyes

    To shut out Hell

    For good.

    Mine I lift to a blissful heaven

    In wonder at the lark

    Ascending.

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    charlpntr commented on In a Flanders War Cemetery

    08-31-2009

    Simply magnificent prose...I aspire to be as good a poet as you are.
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    Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

    Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) Greek philosopher.

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