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Names on Wood

  • 05-01-2005 9:25pm
    #1
    Kappar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,114 ✭✭✭


    NAMES ON WOOD

    In a field in France,
    On a tree standing on its own,
    I saw engraved.
    Some words which made me think.

    I thought:-
    Our name is Unknown.
    We are a solider in the trenches.
    In the Somme.
    We fight for the future; we fight in the past.

    We lay by a tree, waiting to die.
    Our eyes fixed, staring to the sky.
    We thought about our life.
    We do not want to be forgotten.

    We took our bayonet.
    And engraved on a tree.
    The words that you are reading and RIP
    They will live forever; forever we will be.

    This is our tombstone.
    Your freedom our legacy.
    Your memories our epitaph.

    The words I read were Names on Wood, carved forever.
    Dated:
    18th of November 1916


Comments

  • #2
    BEAT
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 5,945 ✭✭✭BEAT


    did you write this yourself kappar or is it really something you read?

    I love it btw ;)


  • #3
    MojoMaker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,938 ✭✭✭MojoMaker


    I suggest this is a personal creation. Wood could never be considered long lasting let alone eternal.

    Nicely put Kappar. War-begotten imagery is rare in these parts.


  • #4
    Kappar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,114 ✭✭✭Kappar


    BEAT wrote:
    did you write this yourself kappar or is it really something you read?

    I love it btw ;)
    No I wrote this myself.
    Wood could never be considered long lasting let alone eternal.

    That is quite interesting actually. And not something I thought about consciously when writing perhaps showing how we precive time. The life of a tree seems like forever but when compared to man's history is quite short. How many wars have had soliders die and perhaps done the same only now to have been forgotton when the tree dies.


  • #5
    MojoMaker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,938 ✭✭✭MojoMaker


    Exactly. Who knows how many messages such as this are lost over time. Although I don't fancy a soldier scraping away on stone while the enemy closes in! :D


  • #6
    BEAT
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 5,945 ✭✭✭BEAT


    this hit home with me for a different reason,
    I have an old scetch book from about 5 or 6 years ago and the second page is a scetch I did of 2 soldiers on a mountain top , one soldier didnt make it to the tree and lay dead arm out stretched,
    the other soldier made it and with suffering etched on his face he is carving words into a tree trunk while holding his helmet,

    I put a little poem on that trunk that ended in RIP...I must get the book out and find what I wrote but it reminded me of that scetch as soon as I read this. ;)


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