davidbrucehaiku: looking good

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LOOKING GOOD

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Look at these colors

If you have got it, flaunt it

Do you look this good?

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Wilfred Owen: Anthem for Doomed Youth

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What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?

      — Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

      Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle

Can patter out their hasty orisons.

No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells; 

      Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,—

The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;

      And bugles calling for them from sad shires.

What candles may be held to speed them all?

      Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes

Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes.

      The pallor of girls’ brows shall be their pall;

Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,

And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.

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Thomas Hardy: The Man He Killed

 

 

“Had he and I but met

By some old ancient inn,

We should have sat us down to wet

Right many a nipperkin!

 

“But ranged as infantry,

And staring face to face,

I shot at him as he at me,

And killed him in his place.

 

“I shot him dead because —

Because he was my foe,

Just so: my foe of course he was;

That’s clear enough; although

 

“He thought he’d ’list, perhaps,

Off-hand like — just as I —

Was out of work — had sold his traps —

No other reason why.

 

‘Yes; quaint and curious war is!

You shoot a fellow down

You’d treat if met where any bar is,

Or help to half-a-crown.”

 

Notes:

A nipperkin is a small cup of an alcoholic drink such as beer.

Traps are personal belongings.

 

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