{"id":24651,"date":"2025-02-18T17:04:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T17:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=24651"},"modified":"2025-02-18T17:04:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T17:04:46","slug":"the-poetry-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/the-poetry-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poetry of War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Yes I&nbsp;am lying in the ground&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>But my lips are moving&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who said that Joe&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The poet Osip Mandelstam&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was one of the first Russian poets I read after Pushkin&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like many other writers he incurred the wrath of Stalin&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It did not help that he wrote&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>His cockroach moustache laughs&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Perching on his top lip&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I cannot recommend&nbsp;him highly enough&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You are a great admirer of Russian poetry&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is because I often find Russia a tragic country&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even now and yet again it is being run by a mad man<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A war is taking place and thousands of innocent lives&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Are being lost on both sides&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wonder how many Russian and Ukrainian voices&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have been extinguished and now lie silent&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In known and unknown graves .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When this terror ends&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Will these voices again be heard&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I sincerely hope they are&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some people say to me that&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">War poetry is no longer written&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I always correct them&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As war poetry will always be written&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In times of conflict&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Would you ever write war poetry Joe&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have since my pen was very young&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes I&nbsp;am lying in the ground&nbsp; But my lips are moving&nbsp; Who said that Joe&nbsp; The poet Osip Mandelstam&nbsp; He was one of the first Russian poets I read after Pushkin&nbsp; Like many other writers he incurred the wrath of Stalin&nbsp; It did not help that he wrote&nbsp; His cockroach moustache laughs&nbsp; Perching on his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24652,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24651\/revisions\/24652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}