The light infantry
They would be back by Christmas
No one said which year
copyright Francis Barker 2020
Haiku: The Great War 1914-18
Tag: poetry
Haiku: Past Stability
Haiku: The Fruits of Man
Haibun Poem: Amnesia
We found cameras in the rubble
of abandoned buildings
and started shooting.
We lived in ways which never matchedÂ
those plush surroundings,
demolished before our eyes
to make way for the steel and glass –
an inferior civilisation tethered in debt.
Tell me what is real
Our amnesia is profound
Wake up to the dream
copyright Francis Barker 2020
Haibun Poem: Inheritance
History is a narrative,
tomes written by the victors,
stories bequeathed to us children
who merely play
among the cast offs of giants.
We inheritors
Our shacks around palaces
Digging in the dirt
copyright Francis Barker 2020
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