Poems ✍️
  12.04.2026
  10

Author: Michael Shepherd

0339: 21 Keywords To A Life

War under a summer sun
and the soldier’s life now a sleep, beautiful
in, we may hope, the angel kiss
of death, friend of heroic human nature.

We who live on may count the loss: girl,
home and love, hope and music,
sex; rain; all the school
of life. He, not.


(This ‘poem’ contains the 21 most hit key words on this site - see poet page.)


  war loss Elegy

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