thehighlanderspoems

The Quietening of the Guns

Barrage ceases
Smoke disperses
What sight awaits
Of this human curse

New craters formed
On top of old
The soil in turn
Wars ploughed fold

Cries echo
Across bloodied fields
Single bullets zip
As bodies yield

Where once were men
Of families and friends
Wanton carnage
Conflict rend

Patterns of dead
Adorn the land
Icons of death
In dark demand

Silence so serene
As the trenches fill
Naive and young
For tomorrows spill

The greatest reward
For a war that's started
Is for the war to end
And remember the departed 

 

We Will Remember Them
 
Dying for Freedom
American and British soldiers
Will be remembered
 
 
 
 
 
" Dedicated to the losses our countries are taking to fight for our freedom "

 

White Marble Angels

Silence surrounds me
as I walk amidst greened lawns ~~.
My sense of freedom,
I find so hard to absorb ~~.
White marble angels explain







Belt of no Faith
 
Early morning
In various places
Faiths of many
Wearing different faces
 
Families descend
To spend their time
Families intend
To queue in line
 
Shoppers gather
Sellers sell
Many hundreds
Getting on so well
 
A face so different
Enters the scene
Although they blend
The look of mean
 
Position chosen
Before this day
No thought or care
Of who they slay
 
Connection met
Explosion spew
Scarlet life
In sporadic flew
 
Innocents scattered
Families torn
These newly called martyrs
From natures womb born
 
Media coverage
To foreign lands
Showcase this horror
By cowardly hands
 
Carnage cleared
Blue skies return
To witness the horror
Where many lives turned
 
This belt of no faith
Triggered for what
Remembered today
Tomorrow forgot
 
The people's people
Return every day
Market Square Hero's
In-spite of the slay

 

IED

Fabricated to
Kill, guerrilla's general
Unconventional

 

 

 


 

Boy Soldier
 
Solitary soldier
Walks out of the smoke
Flame thrower exhausted
For the lives choked
 
In barren surround
The stench of flesh
Burning bodies
Blood running trench
 
Gone is the sky
That was there this morning
Billowing death
Death clouds forming
 
Out of these clouds
Walks a nineteen year old boy
Sent to war
To play with deaths toy
 
As he walks away
Lighting a cigarette
As he draws on its life
Is it to help him forget
 
Did he come home from this war
Will we never know
For the expanse of the clouds
Drifting likes deaths snow

 

Corvette
 
This escort ship
Of World War Two
Convoy carer
To guide them through
 
From sail to steam
To propeller screw
Atlantic saviour
For me and you
 
These modern Corvette's
With their fire power
Delicately named
After a flower
 
While the Canadian class
Named after cities and towns
But when it came to protect
They buckled down
 
From the west to Murmansk
Carrying supplies and arms
To the USSR
Bringing war her charms
 
Of these U-Boat wolves
Running with their packs
Many a life saved
When these Corvette's attack
 
Depth charge fires
Sinks, boom  - look for oil
For many a wolf
Met this toil
 
These more modern ships
Stealth in design
For flying at the back
Their proud ensign
 
 
For the many Navy and Merchant seamen who braved these
  Atlantic crossing during World War Two, for me and you.
 
 
Desolation Alley
 
Its been years now
Since the bombs exploded
I'm all alone
My life eroded
 
Above the ground
Is not any more
The life has gone
Leaving a putrid core
 
All my days i stay sitting 
Scavenging for food
Even diseased vermin
Look so good
 
The radiation
Has changed everything
From the sun being round
To seasonal spring
 
Death and decay
In acrid drift
What natures left
Which way, will her balance shift
 
I bleed from sores
That take weeks to heal
I bleed from my heart
That was made of steel
 
My wish for tomorrow
Is not to awake
To leave Desolation Alley
And this nuclear ache

 

Star Fort's " trace italienne "

Soldiers and cannons
Bastions and ravelin structuring
Fortifications

 

 

 

Ottawa Treaty

Infestation of
Anti-personnel land mines
Rwanda declared free

 

 

 

On 2 December 2009, Rwanda became the first country to be declared free of landmines

 

Wars of Difference and Different Wars

Dream on man
War is constant
It has gone beyond
Catholic or Protestant

Religious wars
From our short lived past
Will never dilute
As long as we last

In this modern world
We fight for different reasons
What ever the excuse
And in any season

We fight over land
Imaginary WMD
Even over soccer
How the hell can that be

We now fight over oil
In a camouflaged war
Taking innocents with us
In public deplore

Guerrilla, assault
Bombing with precision
We vote them in
As they twist their decisions

Dream on man
War has changed
Greed has taken over
From the pasts deranged