Writings From the Heart
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Comment from xotic flotsam
I feel tangible fear, the cold dark dampness. Rocks and rubble strew everywhere a everyone tries to scamper into any shelter found. That anyone survived under a cupboard, leaves a tale no one could forget. Ground shaking, deafening noise and prayers for life surely simplified every night the bombs fell. To live is the most the tale. be well.
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I feel tangible fear, the cold dark dampness. Rocks and rubble strew everywhere a everyone tries to scamper into any shelter found. That anyone survived under a cupboard, leaves a tale no one could forget. Ground shaking, deafening noise and prayers for life surely simplified every night the bombs fell. To live is the most the tale. be well.
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Thank you for this
Gary
Comment from nancyjam
Your free verse conveys the trauma suffered
be all, but especially children during those
terrible days.
I can't imagine the terror of those sounds.
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Your free verse conveys the trauma suffered
be all, but especially children during those
terrible days.
I can't imagine the terror of those sounds.
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Thank you
Comment from nancy_e_davis
I was very young but I will never forget the newsreels and the radio broadcasts telling us how the war was going. Prayers were going up over here for your safety as well. It was hell over there. The Allies won and we all survived. I hate to think what the world would be like had we lost to the Nazis and Japanese. Well said. Nancy
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I was very young but I will never forget the newsreels and the radio broadcasts telling us how the war was going. Prayers were going up over here for your safety as well. It was hell over there. The Allies won and we all survived. I hate to think what the world would be like had we lost to the Nazis and Japanese. Well said. Nancy
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Thank you Nancy
Comment from jandeck
This profoundly supports the idea that with God's help all things are possible. Very descriptive version of World War II in London. I could almost hear the sirens going off. Well done!
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This profoundly supports the idea that with God's help all things are possible. Very descriptive version of World War II in London. I could almost hear the sirens going off. Well done!
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Thank you
Comment from granny goes viral
What I find so sad, besides the your need to write yet another poem about yet another sad piece of history, and it is a good poetic picture of a lousy situation...what I find so sad...it is not history. Is it?
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What I find so sad, besides the your need to write yet another poem about yet another sad piece of history, and it is a good poetic picture of a lousy situation...what I find so sad...it is not history. Is it?
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Comment from TKField
The reality of modern war against civilians from the air, is brought to anguished life in this fine poem. Despite the tons of bombs, the British handed Hitler his first setback and forever scrapped their planned invasion. Ironically, it was the strategy of bombing population centers that sealed Jerry's fate, since they were actually on the brink of victory bombing airfields and radar installations. Of course Germany was payed back in kind, when the allies, led by "Bomber Harris" bombed them back to the stone age, killing thousands. But this was their finest hour. Germany never did develop an effective heavy bomber or a long range escort fighter. Things may have been different if they had.
It's kind of ironic to listen to people decry the deaths of civilians in Gaza by the Israelis, when what we did was ten thousand times worse. C'est la guerre.
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The reality of modern war against civilians from the air, is brought to anguished life in this fine poem. Despite the tons of bombs, the British handed Hitler his first setback and forever scrapped their planned invasion. Ironically, it was the strategy of bombing population centers that sealed Jerry's fate, since they were actually on the brink of victory bombing airfields and radar installations. Of course Germany was payed back in kind, when the allies, led by "Bomber Harris" bombed them back to the stone age, killing thousands. But this was their finest hour. Germany never did develop an effective heavy bomber or a long range escort fighter. Things may have been different if they had.
It's kind of ironic to listen to people decry the deaths of civilians in Gaza by the Israelis, when what we did was ten thousand times worse. C'est la guerre.
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Comment from persevere
This is a stark reminder of life in the blitz. One's own safety was paramount but the children were even more vulnerable. I have a moving letter written, in 1941, by my aunt to my mother in S.Africa. My aunt was in the ambulance service during the blitz and her descriptions are heart wrenching.
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This is a stark reminder of life in the blitz. One's own safety was paramount but the children were even more vulnerable. I have a moving letter written, in 1941, by my aunt to my mother in S.Africa. My aunt was in the ambulance service during the blitz and her descriptions are heart wrenching.
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Thanks for reading
Comment from Chrisfiore
Greetings deepwater,
This is a solemn effort, a poem that helps to remind us that there are victims of war who want nothing more than to survive and carry on the routine of their lives. I liked the structure and pace of your writing. It seems to build up, level off and then gradually sink back down to normal again, like a family awaiting the next air raid. A pleasure to read and critique. ;) Chrisfiore
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Greetings deepwater,
This is a solemn effort, a poem that helps to remind us that there are victims of war who want nothing more than to survive and carry on the routine of their lives. I liked the structure and pace of your writing. It seems to build up, level off and then gradually sink back down to normal again, like a family awaiting the next air raid. A pleasure to read and critique. ;) Chrisfiore
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Thanks Chris
Comment from springrain
I think this is a very well-composed and moving poem. It manages to catch the terror and the fear, but also the courage and irrepressible spirit of the civilians.
I really like the way you let the sound of the bells ring through the whole poem; it becomes a song of hope that bring people together and carry them through.
Thanks for an excellent poem and all the best to you.
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I think this is a very well-composed and moving poem. It manages to catch the terror and the fear, but also the courage and irrepressible spirit of the civilians.
I really like the way you let the sound of the bells ring through the whole poem; it becomes a song of hope that bring people together and carry them through.
Thanks for an excellent poem and all the best to you.
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Thank you
Comment from chasennov
Chapter 46 of the book Writings From the Heart London 1942
"We Survive" This is a great poem you have created here about the war. It is time to remember what those brave men paid with to make us free. Well done.
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Chapter 46 of the book Writings From the Heart London 1942
"We Survive" This is a great poem you have created here about the war. It is time to remember what those brave men paid with to make us free. Well done.
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Thank you
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Welcome.