Angels in the Trenches

You really have a sympathetic way of writing about the tragedy of trench warfare, mate. I really like this one a lot.

A minor correction needed, though, to the forth stanza where you've repeated 'and the' on the first and second line.

Great work, though.

Thanks D. It's no harm to give me glasses; well spotted, corrected now, appreciated mate. I am going to try and write about something else now LOL. I think it was reading 'The Long Way' by Sebastian Barry that kicked off this spate of 'trench' pieces ;)

That's very good, I particularly like: 'while a Satan sighted sniper searches souls within the skins'. It says a lot in a few words.

It's funny what one book can do. I don't think I've ever fully recovered from 'Lolita'. :)

Thanks Steve, glad you liked

HAHAHA! chuck, would love to read some of the work that sprung from that book; hard stuff I'd say lol. ;)

This is brilliant Chris! A well-deserved cherry ;) There are too many beautiful lines for me to quote - such rich imagery and rhythm! Well done :)

Magic xxx

Thanks Magic, glad you liked

Chris ;)

Thanks for the cherry folks ;)

"HAHAHA! chuck, would love to read some of the work that sprung from that book; hard stuff I'd say lol. ;)"

Well it wasn't so much the subject matter as the style. Nobody does innuendo like Nabokov. I just found 'Lolita' incredibly funny and liberating. I could say the same thing about Burroughs.

A good one Chris, deserving of the cherry.

Well maybe I'll read it again sometime, now that I'm older. I might be better able to appreciate the finer points and put aside the subject matter, which probably wouldn't be as contentious now anyway given the way the world has evolved and I have aged, in the last 30 odd years. Thanks chuck for explanation.

Chris

Thank you Luigi, much appreciated ;)

Lolita is still a 'dangerous' book in some ways and I'm still surprised it ever got published in America. I think it's mostly regarded as Nabokov exploring a taboo subject...on a metaphorical level it's America seen through European eyes. Sorry about the digression. Not sure how I got from trench warfare to Humbert Humbert.

This is good. This is epic stuff.

Thanks Clinton, glad you liked. I have a lot of WW1 pieces; my favorite time to write about, thanks for reading ;)