Dear Reader: When Princess Elizabeth became Queen Elizabeth II in 1952 she was excited and terrified simultaneously of her first weekly meeting with Prime Minister Winston Churchill. As a youth growing up during WWII she revered Churchill and like most Brit’s credited him with saving the world from terrorism and Nazism. She should not have […]
The Queen and the Prime Minister — Chapel of Hope Stories
Little Anne
How could it have a name,
this skeleton dug up in York?
I asked myself many times,
sitting there transfixed by the image –
a face with no flesh
in the open newspaper on the floor.
In the background
the Righteous Brothers sang,
requiem voices reverberating.
A lone, leaden bass
dripping in a sad, grey pool.
I stared at those empty sockets
as if I had known her,
unsure if I was mortal, too.
On the black and white T.V.
they were burying Churchill.
From the kitchen mother’s
caveats decried the great man,
how she’d marched into
the polling booth back
in forty five dressed all in red!
But when I asked her what
a Jewess was, she wouldn’t say.
All I wanted to know was how
Anne had ended up like this,
disturbed in her rest
while Churchill went to his.
poem © copyright df barker 2012
*first published in poetry collection ‘Anonymous Lines’, available at amazon
* PLEASE ALSO SEE http://mikemalonemysteries.wordpress.com/
During the Industrial Revolution, this country produced such notables as IK Brunel; men of genius.
During the Second World War, Churchill was given the job lead us through the dark times. This man had been in the wilderness for years before the outbreak of war – but he was clearly perfect for the role.
Within that conflict, Guy Gibson was flight commander of the Dambuster squadron. They called him rather short, arrogant, not very good with those beneath him… Yet, it was he who flew back several times over the Mohne Dam to draw the fire away from the other Lancasters. A man for the time.
And so to today. Well, where is he or she? Can you see them?
History is nothing but irony. Seventy years ago the few saved the many in England from the enemy without. Today the few expose the many in England to the enemy within.
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