Soldier Poets

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  1. Ron Goldstein

    Ron Goldstein WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    Interesting weekend !

    I received a visit from Carmelo Russo and his wife.

    Mr.Russo is the gentleman who runs an Italian webisite named Timiolente that writes about life in wartime Adrano and it was he that translated my poem on Adrano into Italian.
    La poesia dedicata ad Adrano da Ron Goldstein

    Will write more when he posts further details on the site.

    Ron
     
    Last edited: Aug 29, 2016
  2. RRTB

    RRTB 145 Fd Regt (Berkshire Yeomanry) RA

    I am not ashamed to say that tears are filling my eyes right now as I read through those poems. You gentlemen who were there, who experienced these things, survived them and who now are willing to help folks like me to learn about WW2 - you may not consider yourselves heroes but by George you are, every last one of you.

    RRTB
     
  3. Shiny 9th

    Shiny 9th Member

    Here is one from written by Cyril Grimes who served with the 9th Battalion, Royal Sussex in the Far East.

    The Arakan

    Dawn on the Mayu Range
    Is always new and beautiful and strange
    to you: because the night before
    You're never absolutely sure
    The day is past
    Was not your last.
    And so the early golden ray
    That brings you yet another day
    Evokes a silent grateful prayer
    It's nice to find that you're still there.

    The Arakan was the first action in which the 9th took part. Here, Cyril contemplates his survival amidst the natural beauty of the Arakan, no doubt thinking of lost comrades.
     
  4. Shiny 9th

    Shiny 9th Member

    Here is another one of Cyrils.

    In Memoriam

    By the road and the hills lie the scatter seed
    A bamboo cross on each lonely grave
    Shimmering silence and jungle weed
    Enfold and touch lightly- here sleep the brave


    Not yet the fruit of your dying be tasted
    The sun and the rain no harvest unfold
    But rest, we shall see that the seed was not wasted
    The living remember, the tale shall be told


    Cyril Grimes, Sgt. 9th Battallion, Royal Sussex Rgt.

    I believe both poems were written when the author and my father were convalescing in India after contracting hepatitis.This latter poem was one of the factors that lead me to publish Cyril's diaries - I did want their tale to be told.
     
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