25 December 2009
A lifetime past D-Day but still it moves
This artwork was created on 6th June 2009 and the poetry added on Christmas Day 2009.
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Higgins boats and mine-sweepers,
Battleships and cruisers.
Neptune crying out for myths.
The winners and the losers
Protecting me from blazing cliffs
(Life's takers and abusers):
These aged souls enlist with me
To fight another day,
To help me from my starts of June
To all my ends of May.
Richard McIlwraith