No more shall the teddy bear be lifted,No more shall the hallway fill with song,No more shall birthday cakes be feastedon, nor the outdoors played upon. Some of them were ten-and-three,Some were only five,Some of them drank their morn tea freewhen the Kalibr ate them alive. “Here, here, sweet child, don’t more cry”,“You will soon …
Three sisters sailed in the fjordon a calm Sunday afternoon,Clad in black and gray and hazeland white and blue and red,A child sings her song in the distance,The sky now filled with rain-come-gold. Peace.
“Pack your yellow blouseAnd meet me at the lighthouseMy love.I’ve received word from my uncleJohn one who gave me that buckleMy dove.He just came from FinlandAnd invites us to auld England,Together with cups from LithuaniaHe sent us tickets aboard the Lusitania.” Aboard the U-20,Captain Walther Schwieger waits patiently“Sir, we must fulfill our mission;We have plotted …
Sails fluttered all the tales do say,At the crack of dawn, at the break of day,Gunners’ brows sweaty and fingers sooty. That morning was calm and the seas azure blue,Sailing abreast, not a line but two,A plan hatched well in advance. His Majesty’s men followed Horatio’s planDespite being outnumbered almost two to a man,They answered …
A prize priced high from days of auld,A prize fought for by the brave and the bold,Abreast and alert as the tales told,And then we shall know peace. Let lighthearted men be first to unsee,Let the brave remember all that came to be,Strong and prepared, so we will always be free,And then we shall know …
Ladies and gentlemen,We have suspended all airings, recordings and viewingson all channels to bring you this urgent broadcast: Four minutes ago, the enemy launched a strike –A volley of weapons of mass destruction –against our people. We have launched a retaliatory strike against the enemy,as well as a series of countermeasures in hopes ofneutralising the …
If you are reading this letter,Know that I am already long gone,For to my breathing comrade I gave these words,and asked him to send them home,Know that I gave my allbut when the moment came at last,In a trench I did falland could not make it past,When the order came at half past five,Amid the …
