Soldiers Verse: An Anthology of Poetry

Soldiers' Verse by Dickinson, Patric and a great selection of similar Used, New and Anthology of poems selected and with an introduction by Patric Dickinson.
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The one I disrupted was full of boxes of fish and the rest were also completely innocent. We completely missed the shark. All those people had their lives massively disrupted. He volunteered for a tour of Afghanistan and is less than two weeks from his return home.

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John has also served in Northern Ireland. He is married with three children. I wanted to do my bit. I felt we could make a difference and I think we have. The inspiration for this poem came from speaking to my year-old son. I write a bit and Afghanistan has certainly given me lots of material.

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There have been some quite harrowing things out here. But I also remember other moments, like when we did a "road move". Everywhere we stopped the children would come out and ask us for sweets. Colonel Simon Marr joined the Army in The infantryman has served with the Royal Regiment Fusiliers, and commanded at platoon level in Northern Ireland and at company level in Kosovo. He is married with two daughters and lives near Hereford. What I was trying to do with On Patrol was place myself in that situation and think through what would be going through my mind when faced with those sorts of circumstances.

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How would I personally feel with the uncertainty, the fear and the silence of concentration in my mind? Poetry is my own way of responding to what I may have experienced, what I have seen, what I feel. It focuses your thoughts. I find it very cathartic.

Private Nathan Gunapalan has served with the Territorial Army for three years. He lives with his family in St Albans. Nathan completed a six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan last year, attached to The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment. I saw the reality of the situation, what actually happened. It hit me hard, seeing the way they lifted him onto the aircraft, seeing it fly off.

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I had done my English exam just before I deployed. I had been analysing poetry for that and I found the structure of poetry came quite normally. There is still time to submit poems to the Injured anthology. Entry is open to any serving or retired member of the Armed Forces who has been on active service, or family and friends who have suffered from the effects of combat.

Ah, the delirious weeks of honeymoon! Soon they returned, and, after strange adventures, Settled at Balham by the end of June. Their money was in Can.

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Debentures, And in Antofagastas. For Antoinette The stars still marching in extended order move out of nowhere into nowhere. Look, they are halted on a vast field tonight, true no man's land. Far down the sky with sword and belt must stand Orion.


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For commissariat of this exalted war-company, the Wain. The barracks is almost empty. The soldiers are almost all on overnight pass. There is only me, writing this letter to you, And one other soldier, down at the end of the room, And a spider, that hangs by the thread of his guts, His tenacious and delicate guts, Swift's.

When the grass was closely mown, Walking on the lawn alone, In the turf a hole I found, And hid a soldier underground. Spring and daisies came apace; Grasses hide my hiding place; Grasses run like a green sea O'er the lawn up to my knee. Under grass alone he lies, Looking up with leaden. Academy of American Poets Educator Newsletter.