The Song Of Battle

The Song Of Battle

A Poem by Inner Rain
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Italian Sonnet

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Can you hear them coming?
Coming from the woods so deep,
Coming from where ghosts never sleep.
Can you hear the drumming?
Can you hear them humming?
Tunes that haunt the sheep,
That drives them from their keep.
Can't you hear the wind's warning?

The ground continues to quake,
The trees shake and leaves fall,
And the river runs rotting red.
The hearts of men quiver and shake,
As they sound the rallying call,
Only later to collect their dead.

© 2012 Inner Rain


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bleak but honest look at how war has always been. I like how the first stanza builds up so much suspense and then the climax is skipped to show that the end is the same as always. you don't need to know how they fought because regardless they'll be fetching the corpses in the end. but very good job 8)

Posted 13 Years Ago


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This was wonderful! What vivid imagery. And you don't just describe the scene; the reader is put in the middle of it, as if a participant in the actual battle. Well done.

Posted 12 Years Ago


wow very intense and a very deatailed poem Its really good and the title fits perfectly with the poem great job thi is reallyu great ink
:)

Posted 13 Years Ago


oh and i like how the title is like telling the story of the poem itself. how every war has always been and will be the same in the sense of the system, destruction, etc, like the same song of battle.

Posted 13 Years Ago


Exactly true. The feel this poem gives off is like WW1 or even earlier, but the message remains constant. The second stanza really illustrates the huge, huge effect war has, "only later to collect their dead". Love it.

Posted 13 Years Ago


bleak but honest look at how war has always been. I like how the first stanza builds up so much suspense and then the climax is skipped to show that the end is the same as always. you don't need to know how they fought because regardless they'll be fetching the corpses in the end. but very good job 8)

Posted 13 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.


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Inner Rain
Inner Rain

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Why I Write?! I love to write poems... Not really planning to make it a profession, i just enjoy it. I write to relieve stress, especially school-related stress and also so i can express my emot.. more..

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