Axis & Allies - damowords

Teutonica
Germany faces the decadent West,
Bouyant as the fresh coming of the Spring,
When leafy woods are at their loveliest,
When bowers vibrant in their blossoming,
When golden streams
Sol sends set on the scene,
Rose bright, glorious beams glinting off each machine.
Hitler boards the Amerika,
Bright stars watch them trundle West,
Stirring strains of his dear Wagner
Lull him to a good hours rest,
Time whirrs by... train reaches bunker,
His bomb‐proof Felsennest...
ʺO God of Battles steel my soldiers hearts!ʺ
Der Fuhrer prays before his bloodshed starts.
Facing the tranquil occident
Rommel reclines with wines,
Calm & content, his regiment
Must thunder thro the lines,
Flicking thro Sun Tzu, Von Clauswic & DeGaulleʹs recent lines.
Germany
May 10th
1940
Invasion
Aft shouts of war the shafts begin to fly,
Most terrible of all the former days,
The sun was barely half‐an‐hour high
& all the lowland borders were ablaze;
Wilhemina
Took flight across the sea,
The crooked swastika denuding empery.
The prime rules of modern warfare
Are to possess full surprise
& wholly dominate the air ‐
Thro Ardennes a phalanx flies,
Cheval‐de‐frise soon batter’d bare
Beneath the Stuka skies,
In three lethal lines of well‐primed panzer
As tho they faced the French off Trafalgar.
King Leopold laments the end
Of his neutrality,
Forced to defend, this German ʹfriendʹ
Invading his contree...
We learn from history we learn nothing from history.
Brussels
May 10th
1940