The veteran Issue 6
The quarterly magazine of the Alicante Branch of the Royal British Legion, issue 6
The quarterly magazine of the Alicante Branch of the Royal British Legion, issue 6
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Poets<br />
Corner<br />
2 Para, June 82..... on ,<br />
It was some show......<br />
Better, than Dante's inferno.<br />
Bright colours.....,<br />
Filled the night, as....<br />
Death.... filled the air,<br />
With a living, screaming rainbow !<br />
Swathes of fiery light plucked,<br />
Holes, in mortal souls.<br />
While banshees .....eerie cries!<br />
Heralded the end, for some.<br />
While Paratroopers fought.<br />
As shells and bombs rained down.<br />
Some....were just thrown aside,<br />
tossed, .....in the air.<br />
To land and lie, and briefly laugh.....<br />
Before rising up,<br />
to join in deaths dance, once more.<br />
And as suddenly as it begun.<br />
Once more Silence......<br />
Filled the land,<br />
as dawn, begun to break.<br />
For the Valkyries .....<br />
had filled their quota.<br />
On yon.....last<br />
vista....<br />
Way down South!<br />
Just before Stanley, at place.....<br />
Called<br />
Wireless Ridge.<br />
Giajl © Jim Love<br />
Nowhere to run & Nowhere to hide<br />
....( RIP )<br />
What I Miss Most<br />
As part of our Falklands<br />
40 celebration<br />
poets corner features the<br />
poems of Branch Member<br />
and Falklands Veteran<br />
Jim 'Jock' Love.<br />
I miss those crisp clear nights, when the frost glistens in the<br />
moonlight.<br />
I miss those lonely exposed hills, lashed by the rain.<br />
I miss the young and innocent faces, some of whom we’ll<br />
never see again.<br />
I miss the laughter and the crack.<br />
I miss their morbid humour, the childish pranks and unspoken<br />
laws.<br />
I miss the sense of belonging, that unique bond.<br />
I miss youth at its best, though I’ll grow old, unlike the rest.<br />
What I miss most?<br />
I miss the lads.<br />
On Far Off Lands.....<br />
<strong>The</strong>y'll always...... be.<br />
A little part, of me.<br />
That's been,.... left behind.<br />
Whether, added ....to the water.<br />
Or buried, in the mud.<br />
Perhaps..... reverent, in the wind.<br />
Or ....<br />
a small piece, encapsulated...<br />
Within,....<br />
My brain.<br />
Which will forever rest.<br />
As long,.... as I remain.<br />
A memory......... of a,<br />
Time,.... when,<br />
I once was, a warrior!<br />
Giajl © Jim Love<br />
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