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Winner of A Poem for Every Occasion

Congratulations to Leonard Jeffries, who we’ve selected as the winning poet from ‘A Poem for Every Occasion’. A fine Celebrations Hamper has been awarded for Leonard’s poem ‘One Of The Fallen’. Read below:

One Of The Fallen
Five fingers on the pulse of life,
each with its own peculiar role.
One felt the warmth of something young,
the chill of something old.
One smelt the freshness of the spring,
and, too, the dying rose.
One saw the mornings, sharp and clear,
how soft the evenings glowed.
One tasted bitterness and joy,
and soft lips in the dark.
One heard the high notes of the lark,
the low tones of the chapel bell,
the children’s voices in the park,
the violent moments that were hell,
and then . . . it heard the call!
He was afraid and wrapped his fingers
’round his weak and feeble frame
protesting he was much too young,
protesting he was not to blame,
protesting that this hand of his
was there to honour and fulfil . . .
and nurture. Not to kill.
But once again, there came the call!
Oh life, once cheap, but precious now!
Oh tender heart that sobs and sighs
don’t lose him while protesting how
he’s much too young to die . . .
but high above his crumbling wall
there comes again the call!
Five fingers that five senses were,
were led away, now slumber
with comrades in the fields of France.
Just rank and name and number!

Leonard Jeffries

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