Poetry
Three Ekphrastic Poems
about WW1 in Flanders Fields
by Belgian painter & poet Jan Theuninck
"Yperite", "Hill 60" &
"Passiondale"
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"Yperite"
late at night
a mist
fills the valley
without knowing
it suffocates
like a dark power
on the fields
our dead bodies
and under the grass
a brown soil
imagines the bridging of two worlds—the literal and the metaphorical—and questions what we have created, what has been lost, and what might be possible for the
Human Race.
"Hill 60"
poppies blood
on the green grass
on the hills of mud
away they pass...
"Passiondale"
badly shell shocked
can't find my dugout
damned generals
where's my pillbox
shells rain
craters remain
insanity or death
what's the difference
