Time stretches
taut as
a drumskin,
each passing syllable
a vibrating membrane
with the,
longed for
hoped for
prayed for..
Time stretches
beyond the horizon
each immeasurable step
further from
the vanishing point
of the,
longed for
hoped for
prayed for..
Time stretches
until,
until,
looping in
on itself
deus ex machina
the longed for
the hoped for
the prayed for..
Deliverance
FOOTNOTE:
In May 1940, Germany advanced into France, trapping Allied troops on the beaches of Dunkirk. Under air and ground cover from British and French forces, troops were slowly and methodically evacuated from the beach using every serviceable naval and civilian vessel that could be found. At the end of this heroic mission, 330,000 French, British, Belgian and Dutch soldiers were safely evacuated.
Passages of time on life……..a most realistic piece 🙂
Yes , indeed , so real … we just wait for the time of deliverance .. we live on …waiting ..So well penned .
The poem successfully captures the mood and mindset of the soldiers during the strategic retreat at Dunkirk.
A tortuous road with a soothing end. Good work.
A succinct free-verse response to an intelligent and commercially successful Hollywood movie—kind of rich interface between cinema and poetry done by an expert with social conscience; a smart convergence of artistic POVs looking at grim and dehumanizing realities of nations at war; heroism; nationalism and ordinary lives caught in the rhetoric and meshing matrix of mutually competing ideologies that finally cancel out each other in the theater of war everywhere, resulting in casualties of epic scale; avoidable tragedies and gigantic human losses.
Of individuals pitted against states, madness, death and mayhem—and of finding sanity in a most insane front—the battle zone strafed by bombs and bullets; a hell created and perpetuated singly for imperialist order.
Kudos—Louis Kasatkin for making poetry political, biting and relevant rather than inward-looking, formal, syntax-obsessed and narcissistic found in social spaces these days.
Succinct, relevant for the www II Dunkirk episode.. brilliant penning of war tensions!