Axis & Allies - damowords

Canto II
The defeat of Japan & the dawning of the nuclear age
VE Day
Ful fragrant with the buttercups of June,
Deep Summer’s musk still sunset lingering,
When all of all Selene’s harmony in tune
Reflected in a warm‐fringed mellowing;
When woods in leaf
By nature gently nurs’d,
Suede moment of relief afore the golden burst.
In a whirl of wars & truces
The pageant of history
Has walk’d well with all the muses
& therin the poetry
Pays good homage to Confucious’
Peaceful testimony,
For surely this a moment of sublime
When dawn’s lush calm is flushʹd across all time.
buckling in the heat
where the A‐bomb burst
a marathon
Kaneko Tota
From Belfast to Casalino,
From Budapest to Lourdes,
From Palermo to old Oslo,
From Archangel to Rhodes,
A whisper of sweet silence as the priesthood scabbard swords.
Europe
May
1945