War poems

• Sudden successive bullets streak the silence
• Like a dull rumour
• Slowly our ghosts drag home
• Worried by silence sentries whisper curious nervous
• Belfast Beirut Phnom Penh
• All flesh is grass
• Spools of suffering set out in rows
• Running children in a nightmare heat
• The readers eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers
• Exposure 


  Abba rhyme scheme cyclical structure ongoing trapping nightmare
• War photographer 


  6 line stanzas ending with rhyming couplets cyclical structure