I was thinking of a Wilfred Owen phrase' bugles calling from sad shires'.
This St George's Day parade had been organised to pre-empt the event being
co-opted by right-wing bodies, yet the brass instruments and uniform
prevalence couldn't but make me think to a hundred years back, when similar
events would have been trooping the young who were to be the mown in
Flanders fields a few years later.
2009/4/29 Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
> Davy I misread as bugloss blowing in the field (much better methinks)
> Love to the whole of Leicester and surrounding regions
> Patrick poetaster first class,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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> I was walking by the cathedral, coming out of town,and came to a halt at
> the
> line of scouts
> marching for St George. It was Sunday and this
> was a delayed parade and my mind went back
>
> to the blue bound school log books the head
> allowed me to quarry and the repeated thump
> of reports on Empire Day. And I thought
> of bugles blowing somewhere, and mud fields
>
> as bands now began a march a trumpet blow.
>
> --
> David Bircumshaw
> "Nothing can be done in the face
> of ordinary unhappiness" - PP
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David Bircumshaw
"Nothing can be done in the face
of ordinary unhappiness" - PP
Website and A Chide's Alphabet
http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
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