THE RUGGED ISLE

 

The channel glistened

With silver strands

Beneath the early summer sun

Its waves broke gently white

Below the green topped cliffs of chalk

The sky of azure blue

Was clear and appeared limitless

But on the distant horizon

Storm clouds gathered

Though these clouds bore no rain

And would not bring a summer squall

Storm and tempest were imminent

The sky became filled with sinister formations

Like foreboding flocks

Of migrating duck or geese

But these were not of natures sending

This malevolent swarm

Scarring the clear June sky

These were of mans conception

Heading for England’s shores

To cross its wondrous tapestry

Spread casually across the land

Like a vast quilted patchwork

And when upon this landscape

Easy on the eye

Did the bombs of evil fall

Shattering the peace

Of our rugged isle

Splitting the earth

And breaking bodies

Its spirit did not break

Its people stood firm

Defiant in Satan's face

Withstanding hells fire

And brimstone smoke

And spat in Hitler’s eye

THE ARMENIAN HOLOCAUST’S

 

The mountainous lands of Armenia

Populated since prehistoric times

Was the site of the Biblical Garden of Eden

And the Armenian highlands surround Mount Ararat

Upon which Noah’s ark came to rest

They were appropriately the first nation in the world

To adopt Christianity in AD 301

As its official state religion

The Christian Armenians lived

Under the ottoman empire’ oppressive yoke

For almost four centuries

When In august 1896

A small band of Armenian freedom fighters

Seeking international recognition of there plight

Raided the headquarters of the Ottoman Bank in Istanbul

They murdered the guards

And took more than 140 staff hostage

However their plan backfired

When it brought down upon their heads

The wrath of their Turkish masters

And provoked the first Armenian holocaust

When Mobs of Muslim Turks

Massacred more than 50,000 Armenians

This was however spectacularly surpassed

Almost 20 years later

When in the spring of 1915

A concerted effort by the Kaisers allies in Istanbul

To systematically set about the removal

Of their Armenian problem

And the Muslim overloads ordered

The Butchery of one and a half million

Armenian Christian souls

And providing the Germans with a template for the future

THE ARMY GAME

 

Salute it only if it moves

Pick it up if it doesn't move

If you can't salute it

Or pick it up just paint it

CHARLES THE MARTYR

 

Charles the first of England

Walked through the snow

Wrapped up against the chill

So no shake would show

Parliament chose to kill

The rightful king of the land

An outrageous act at Whitehall

Perpetrated by the puritans

An axe man on the scaffold

Executing him matter of fact

The cold January snow

Almost purifying the act

A dignified monarch 

Unwavering in his belief

His daughter Princess Elizabeth

Broken hearted died of grief

VENGEANCE WEAPONS

 

Vicious product of the conquered

Exploding on the unsuspecting

Not aimed at the soldiers

Generals or other men of war

Experimental weapons

Aimed not at military targets

Nor at the politicians that send men to war

Chariots of death

Exploding on the innocents

Wiping out whole families

Eliminating the non combatants

Aimlessly targeted at a city

People helpless to escape

Ordinary people doing ordinary things

Not foot soldiers on German soil

Spiteful vengeance of Hitler

VILLAIN OF THE PEACE

 

In 1914, David Lloyd George

The British prime minister of the day

Could have avoided the Great War

By simply not getting in Germany’s way

THE WARRIOR WAS REWARDED

The warrior was rewarded

For his performance in the arena

When he was given a young woman

From the temple of Vesta

Who he happily devoured,

And afterwards he was Gladiator