Dark Ballads

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Sunday, June 8, 2008

An Angel Born in No Man's Land

I do not know where I came from or how I got here, I have no name, I am just a girl in a flawless white dress. Minutes ago I was cast into this world, miscast into a nightmare, spit out as a wave glowing lava from the bowels of a volcano. Around me, some are howling as if they were in hell and... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, June 7, 2008

A Poor Pickelhaube Lament

Ultimatum was followed by ultimatum and ultimately we were going to fight a bright little war. We would sing about love and peace under some Christmas trees in Paris - but we all stranded in the quagmire of the Yser, strangled in the barbed wire. That's why we committed atrocities in cities like... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, June 6, 2008

The Rape of Belgium

Bomb in your womb! Give head to the bayonet! Was it in Leuven? Was it in Aarschot? Has it happened in De Panne, behind the Yser? Poor little Belgium was raped, they said. And I can’t get his voice out of my head: Bomb in your womb! Give head to the bayonet! Someone is shouting: “Man Hat Geschossen!... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, June 5, 2008

The Creatures from the Hellfire Corner

The world believes we are dead, but we are the Undead and we live out of the light as vampyres, hideous and maimed by bombs and grenades, shrapnel, bayonets, dumdummies exploding in your intestines. We are paralysed, blind, deaf, dumb and half -men. We are sleeping in laundry baskets and only... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

You should not be afraid / Zeppelin

Albert! Albert! You should not be afraid of the German revolver! Elisabeth! Elisabeth! You should not be afraid of the German bayonet! Zeppelin Duch folk song "Zeppelin" from the musical "De Engel van Mons" (The Angel of Mons) Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Because it was so cold, that night

‘My dreams are deep enough,’ he says, ‘now and in eternity, amen.’ ‘You should become reality,’ he says, ‘now and with your white wings wide.’ ‘My Word will be Your Flesh,’ he says, ‘while you’re standing in the light of the Hellfire Corner.’ And I scribble down his whispers in the dark, in this... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, June 2, 2008

Zeppelin

Flying in a Zeppelin, was the German Kaiser with a million soldiers right into the Yser. Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, June 1, 2008

They still breathe

Foreigner, do not approach the small building in the remote part of this large hospital. The only people to whom access is not denied, are six carefully selected doctors and about twenty nurses. Here secretly live eighty dead men – even their relatives have been officially informed that they were... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, May 31, 2008

The Angel

When we dream deep enough the Angel will become reality and spread those white wings wide in eternity. Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, May 29, 2008

J. Condon, Age 14

He fell in a field of honour and under a leaden sky the earth colored red. May nineteen fifteen and more he has never seen. There was a leaf torn from the calender and there was a girl who grieved. The name of his mother was on his lips and the name of his brother who fell in another Flanders'... Sign in to see full entry.

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