Today the Somme is a peaceful but sullen place, unforgetting and unforgiving. … To wander now over the fields destined to extrude their rusty metal fragments for centuries is to appreciate in the most intimate way the permanent reverberations of July, 1916. When the air is damp you can smell rusted iron everywhere, even though you see only wheat and barley.
Month: May 2015
Internet Hype Train
Internet hype train
Runs all night
Ignore any pain
Next new thing will get you right
Yelp it at 5 stars
So so good
Cell service is five bars
Instagram posts fast knock on wood!
Don’t stop to think
Engine don’t run on calm
Craft cocktails to drink
Handmade booze balm
Walk past the bathroom mirror
Glance, but don’t slow down
Hey did you hear her?
Next door is the hot place in town
Latest and greatest!
Wait what was that?
Latest and greatest!
Where you at?
Be there next
Leaving here quick
Got to stay in motion
Or I feel a little sick
Wake up tomorrow
Do it again
Don’t feel the sorrow
Ignore the shackles and chain
Gene G. McLaughlin 2015
I Was Here For a Time
I was here for a time
The worlds rages repeated
On this earth for a time
All our dark themes repeated
In quiet moments of grace
These hard truths receded
I was left with that
Which glows in my mind
The passions I have felt
The ties that bind
The love that turns the third eye
To seeing from blind
The war and stuggle can rage around me
The tolls and losses can mount
I will hold the suffering I see
Equally with joys my mind can count
Gene G. McLaughlin 2015
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