No Choice
No Choice
Pegasus has fallen
Garotted and impaled
Hanging like a marionette
As Jesus Christ was nailed
Explosions shrapnel tracer fire
Terrified and mutilated
Lolling tongue and rolling eyes
Disembowelled and lacerated
No twenty one gun tribute
Nor a sibling tear
He gave his life
Like all the rest
Yet didn’t volunteer
Eight million died
Without a prayer
Or tribute carved in stone
Just rats and crows
To honour them
Too late to save
And bring them home
About this poem
8 million horses were killed in the First World War. The heartlessness of mankind has never been so clearly demonstrated.
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Written on November 13, 2022
Submitted by nigelplwilkinson on November 13, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABBBCDEBFGHIJKGLMNOP |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 461 |
Words | 83 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
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