Day 11: Poetry Pub Poem a Day Challenge prompt for NovPad2023 is “Favorite Season”. In honor of Veterans Day, I offer this stanza.
My favorite is the season that interrupts The present way we think things have to be: When homesick soldiers Christmas Eve climb up Out of trenches, cross no mans land, and sing. © Randall Edwards 2023
Photo: British and German troops meeting in no man’s land during the unofficial truce (British troops from the Northumberland Hussars, 7th Division, Bridoux–Rouge Banc Sector); Robson Harold B, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
John McCutcheon’s song, “Christmas in the Trenches,” has always been personally moving. You may listen to the song on YouTube HERE, and an interview with John McCutcheon on Georgia Public Radio, HERE.
Backward Mutters 