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on Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori by Wilfred Owen, on April 24
To wonder how many of you over there in yankee land read this and think of WW1. The latin text is not Owens,it is a line from a monument dedicated to American civil war soldiers who were imprisoned in the wonderful Dartmoor prison and who died there.

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As it says in the existing poem notes up above "DULCE ET DECORUM ......" is actually a Latin 'TAG' from a Latin poet. Its presence at Dartmoor or anywhere else is irrelevant to the meaning.
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on Song-Books Of The War by Siegfried Sassoon, on November 11, 2004
Sassoon was one of the lucky ones who survived, yet maybe that luck was misplaced as twenty years on, those that fought and survived the first world war had to watch their sons march off to fight another one, knowing full well the horrors that would be faced.
A good poem, although persdonally I find the metre 'uncomfortable' maybe because I prefer Owen and Graves and the other WW1 poets rather than Sassoon
on The Song Of Wandering Aengus by William Butler Yeats, on September 11, 2004
More than quite a poem, this is symbolic, its a statement of mind, of faith, of heart.
on Feeling Fucked Up by Etheridge Knight, on August 7, 2004
dammit fine piece of heartfelt longing. Going through this at the moment. feeling this.