At Rest

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*In my English class we're currently studying war poetry. Today we had to write a poem based on a war picture, with 3 stanzas- look, sound and feel. This is what I came up with, though by the last stanza I wasn't paying as much attention to the structure and more just writing what I thought fitted :P The picture I wrote about is on the right btw. I hope you like it <3

Row after row

Not a stone out of place

The headstones rise

From the blood-drenched soil

A pituresque image

Of white picket fences

Overshadowed by towering walls

Of woodland

Silent, mute

The sound of a bird

The roar of a car

A rare thing to hear

For if there be a sound

A commotion at all

It is but a whispher

Nothing can be heard

Save the wailing of the dead

Alone

In the country of the deceased

No life is found

No life that lingers

In the cold clutches of a grave

There is only time to shed one tear

Hesitantly they come

And hesitantly they go

So the sleeping may stay at rest

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