Poems by Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen

Author:Wilfred Owen [Owen, Wilfred]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: poetry
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Exposure

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Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knife us … Wearied we keep awake because the night is silent … Low drooping flares confuse our memory of the salient … Worried by silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous, But nothing happens.

Watching, we hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire. Like twitching agonies of men among its brambles. Northward incessantly, the flickering gunnery rumbles, Far off, like a dull rumour of some other war. What are we doing here?

The poignant misery of dawn begins to grow … We only know war lasts, rain soaks, and clouds sag stormy. Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army Attacks once more in ranks on shivering ranks of gray, But nothing happens.

Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence. Less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow, With sidelong flowing flakes that flock, pause and renew, We watch them wandering up and down the wind’s nonchalance, But nothing happens.

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