Journey of Words

on his high horse

Here’s a man high on a horseA horse on a hillA hill over an estuaryAn estuary to the North SeaThe North Sea stretching to BelgiumBelgium’s Flanders FieldsTo Flanders Fields he sent the finest young menThe finest young men of a generationA generation decimatedDecimated in a mechanical warA mechanical war overseen by a man high on… 

Here's a man high on a horse
A horse on a hill
A hill over an estuary
An estuary to the North Sea
The North Sea stretching to Belgium
Belgium's Flanders Fields
To Flanders Fields he sent the finest young men
The finest young men of a generation
A generation decimated
Decimated in a mechanical war
A mechanical war overseen by a man high on a horse

~

n.b. Kitchener, 1850-1916, remembered in Chatham, Kent. He never saw the end of it. His bloody work, nothing to be proud about. One man in sixteen of the British male population died in the 1914-18 war.

CLP 25/11/2025

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Chris Perry

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