1815

The Battle of Waterloo Recreated...

 They regicide, we campaign: blood, flesh and terror

 camouflage your eyes, afield from the world of error

 napoleon, ney: saints of death! are they near?

 give me truce, death, or mere freedom to fear!

 

 Unity undone, amity abstract, most glee apart 

 those days of comity, will it ever again start?

 mock the genre of rats, a comrade to horrors

 man is the prey and human beasts predators.

 Came the French army, for more power, more enmity

 do I have the fate, to fight, to exist, or am I to infinity

 my heart bled for her, hex the clamoring recruitment

 forced to leave my love, coerced to join the regiment.

 Every me in the Prussians, prayed, every big and small

 petitioned god, a communal dream, the napoleon fall

 Our women awaited blood, every news from war

 We'll fight, for them, for life, but never for honor or star.

                                                                     THE END

Historical Note: 

The Battle of Waterloo takes place near the Waterloo, Belgium on June 18, 1815. In this battle, the forces of the French Empire under the leadership of Michael Ney and Napoleon Bonaparte were defeated by the Seventh Coalition and a Prussian Army, which was commanded by Gebhard Von Blucher. The Battle of Waterloo puts an end to the tyrant rule of Napoleon as the emperor of France. (From Google)

Author's Note

Emotional side of a conscripted man....

Reviews

[Emily Quinn]

This is the kind of writing I deeply enjoy and am always searching to find. It's not a mere poem of entertainment purposes or only to express, it is about real issues, real world battles of various kinds (dictatorship being one of them) and that is what I absolutely love.

Now, moving onto the writing itself. The way you wote each line with kind of two different subjects- almost seeming to be 2 seperate lines in themselves separated by one form of punctuation or another- was a great was to make the poem more impactful. The words feels like hard, quick punches as you read due to these quick stops. You had great imagery and emotion; I couldn't help but feel blood rush to my cheeks with anger...and then you mention "she" which suddenly turns the poem personal and my mood changed to grief and compassion. For me, thats a good indication of a well written peice of literature.

I would be intested in reading more writing if you choose to add more to the site.

[The Cute 1]

hmm i like it were do ur ideas come from the best by far

[No regret]

interesting... n i really loved your style . wow!

[Sweets]

"They regicide, we campaign: blood, flesh and terror
camouflage your eyes, afield from the world of error"
Beautiful rhyme, and vocabulary...
Writing poems about wars is really nice, but rare people can do that.
You're one of them :D
Beautiful Write

do I have the fate, to fight, to exist, or am I to infinity
what an excelent line i really liked the depth of thought that went into the fantastical piece it told us a story with the excelent choice of words he chose... I liked the third paragraph most as it called to me that thats where the heart of the story was. A poor conscripted man who had to leave his lover. Such heartfelt emotions and shown through a siv of imagery.
E. Remore

[Wallflower]

give me truce, death, or mere freedom to fear!

:)

[Jas Alejandrino Ramos]

an unusual poem that i usually read but interesting topic of the poem...

[Seepz]

The pain of the soldier away from his loved ones is well put across. Good stuff! The eternal Man and Beast both inside all of us and all that hatred and hurt comes out through wars.

"We will fight for them (the loved ones), for life but not for honor or stars" Excellent conclusion. Though some still fight or rather make the ones under them fight for the sake of their honor. Waiting for more of this!

[JaceJordd]

i like this, we were talking about this in U.S. History the other day for our "Today In History" that kinda helped me understand it more. Good writingg(:

[David W Moore III]

I love historical fiction. This poem does it well. The anticipation and the final shout of resistance - fantastique, oops I guess french was not the right language here?