2014 Centenary of War
I took a prayer candle
from the church stained
with colour to the bright still evening and
made offering at the foot of a tree.
Veneration of a soldier and oak
Who can outlive the lives of men?
This tree.with colour to the bright still evening and
made offering at the foot of a tree.
Veneration of a soldier and oak
Who can outlive the lives of men?
What can shatter, splinter and still live?
Trees.
What aids platoon advancing?
Grove of trees.
Depicts men arms pleading to God?
Bare trees.
A temple for the fallen?
Thicket thorns.
I could kneel here for a thousand years bone
becoming stone decay, while the trees draw
sap, seed, and fall. Men will still roam and fight
and tend and build in temporary steel
and stone and sorrowfully remember
the shelter of this wood where I sought life.
James A Bullion 4th
August 2014
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