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The Window

A Poem by Harkness

The door to ones soulThe window of understandingHis eyes hazing with the falling tearHis sky blue eyes darkeningDay after day these eyes watch as they..

Simplicity

A Poem by Harkness

SimplicityThe basic attribute of a child's mindGood/BadRight/WrongTasty/NastyHiding/SeekingHow is it that as time flies, we lose track of such a basic..

Time Flys

A Poem by Harkness

With wings of uncertainty time fliesWithout a set course or directionWith increasing obstacles and hurdlesIgnoring the decisions madeFlying by the con..

Extracts from the diary of an Unknown Soldier

A Book by Harkness

A group of diary enteries following the life of an unknown soldier through World War Two

27th May 1940

A Chapter by Harkness

We lost Jack yesterday. Another day on the front, hour after hour awaited us and we walked in line, one after the other, a long snake ..

3rd June 1940

A Chapter by Harkness

I made it! After days of waiting on the beach, watching thousands of ships spilling into Dunkirk while the German planes buzzed overhe..

5th June 1944

A Chapter by Harkness

They told us today that it was happening tomorrow, this will be it. The big day, the day that every single man has been preparing for ..

7th June 1944

A Chapter by Harkness

Imagine hell, now imagine it ten times worse. That is what I have just fought through. My platoon boarded a Landing craft after a jou..

My Mind

A Poem by Harkness

As I look into the darkening to sky my mind again beings to wonder Walking through fields of green and gold Underneath the bright bl..

They Say

A Poem by Harkness

A single drop in the ocean they say Nothing in the great scheme of things they say And yet a drop in the ocean causes ripples Rippl..