Volley and Bayonet Peninsular action

Nice to see VnB alive and well elsewhere in the country. Take a look at this cool battle report.

On the Remembrance theme

In 2010 I completed the Massey University first year Creative Writing paper. As a part of the poetry section of the course I wrote this villanelle. It carries the theme that I started with 'Secular Sainthood'.

What are we remembering?

Oh Glorious acts beheld in history's gaze

In written tomes of acts performed when brave men fought,

Tales abound of men gone past before their days.

Such chronicles of deeds are writ in bloody ways,

From writers who with backward glance their stories wrought

Oh Glorious acts beheld in history's gaze.

Speakers voice with rapture acts that daze

In ways that prompt imagining and thought,

Tales abound of men gone past before their days.

These tales become more mawkish with time's haze

As fewer marchers march with mem’ries fraught,

Oh Glorious acts beheld in history's gaze.

Ghosts of men long gone absorb the praise

Although 'twas not the act their actions sought,

Tales abound of men gone past before their days.

Sunrise welcomes new remembrance days

Do we march each year because we ought?

Oh Glorious acts beheld in history's gaze

Tales abound of men gone past before their days

The marker judged the language to be too archaic.. hurrumph. Not an entirely professional effort, but I liked it then and I still like it now.