{"id":5040,"date":"2020-11-09T17:47:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T17:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=5040"},"modified":"2020-11-09T17:47:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T17:47:09","slug":"a-war-poem-found-in-a-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/09\/a-war-poem-found-in-a-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"A War Poem Found in a Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Turning Into the Void<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From a high vantage we watched the battle progress<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We watched as young men ignorant of delicate flowers<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Were torn apart by the confusion of war<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Each man slaughtered had experienced a childhood<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Whether idyllic or not this was of no matter<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was their childhood<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Which now lay shattered in the mud of the battlefield<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Angels hovered above these men but were afraid to venture too close<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Afraid that they too would become contaminated<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By the sorrows<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By the sorrows<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By the sorrows of the void<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>George Smith (1916)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turning Into the Void &nbsp; From a high vantage we watched the battle progress &nbsp; We watched as young men ignorant of delicate flowers &nbsp; Were torn apart by the confusion of war &nbsp; Each man slaughtered had experienced a childhood &nbsp; Whether idyllic or not this was of no matter &nbsp; It was their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040"}],"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=5040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}