Monday, 28 October 2019

a metal plate


One metal plate held on a chain
Rusted bumps that once was a name
A badge of dirt with flakes of gold
On cloth of slime decaying mould
A cigarettes box of silver hue
With a round hole that went right through
Some letters in a leather pad
Photographs of a family had
A revolver clasped in the hand
A whistle of advance command
Uncovered from a wooded vale
That was the field of Passchendaele



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