She said, “I’m tired of the war,
I want the kind of work I had before,
a wedding dress or something white
to wear upon my swollen appetite.”
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: history, Leonard Cohen, love poetry, politics, religion, song lyrics, unsettling
Daddy laughed and said Smart Snake
and Mrs Kelly with us scowled.
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Tagged: alternate versions, Elizabeth, history, Michael Ondaatje, unsettling
The mist creeps over the hard grey stone,
My girl’s in Tungria; I sleep alone.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: history, homesickness, military, W. H. Auden