World Peace Day - September 21st.
Fearful The Heritage.
So many still falling, victims to hate.
Are wars meant to cease before it's too late?
Bodies in bags arrive, heavy with grief.
Boys dressed as men, never find war relief.
Bombs cannot be answers, for hurt or pain.
How much blood needs spilling to make it plain.
Wartime's young poets described scenes of hell.
Their verses remembered only too well.
Brave folk abound, and our heads to them bow.
But what to the young does such trauma endow
Fearful the heritage, costly the price
If love loses out to futile advice.
To wage war still shows no pity at all.
But merely a future heading for fall.
Only peaceful goodwill, if seen to remain,
Will ensure the fallen have not died in vain.
T A Ramesh
I like it!
I like it!
Baldric
Better to debate than retaliate, better to love than breed hate, those in power decide on our fate, when one mentions war, then its to late!
Better to debate than retaliate, better to love than breed hate, those in power decide on our fate, when one mentions war, then its to late!
Rahul Aithal
Great write.
Great write.
kath
wonderful write Fay on a subject close to everyones heart - whether for good or ill. We war with the vain hope of bringing peace, but no fight I ever saw made anything better, just a whole lot worse. k xxx
wonderful write Fay on a subject close to everyones heart - whether for good or ill. We war with the vain hope of bringing peace, but no fight I ever saw made anything better, just a whole lot worse. k xxx
welshpoet (Chris Smith)
Powerfully said my friend
Powerfully said my friend
samanyan
a great poem fay.....how much bloods needs spilling to make it plain...a very heartfelt write for peace
a great poem fay.....how much bloods needs spilling to make it plain...a very heartfelt write for peace
Ben Gieske
Excellent write, worthy thoughts and desires. Once war is begun, it is hard to end it, and, too many find it too easy to begin.
Excellent write, worthy thoughts and desires. Once war is begun, it is hard to end it, and, too many find it too easy to begin.
Ency Bearis
An excellent write of awareness within this world, peace
An excellent write of awareness within this world, peace
Sandra Martyres
Thanks for this eye-opener of a poem on World Peace Day...May we really try to celebrate it peacefully by ensuring that the war hounds are banished forever...
Thanks for this eye-opener of a poem on World Peace Day...May we really try to celebrate it peacefully by ensuring that the war hounds are banished forever...
Raj Arumugam
And so this war and violence and the deaths of the innocents and young on all sides go on...may we all see better times and lasting positive changes.
And so this war and violence and the deaths of the innocents and young on all sides go on...may we all see better times and lasting positive changes.
carol
i wish everyone a peaceful day
i wish everyone a peaceful day
poeticpiers
Dulce et decorum pro patria more the greatest lie ever told How much more fitting to live for ones country
Dulce et decorum pro patria more the greatest lie ever told How much more fitting to live for ones country
This strong verse reminds me of the poem For The Fallen by Laurence Binyon...A very powerful work Fay..Love the way you conclude it..Excellent.