Posted by gilla
Are you not that good at poetry? Do rhyming words confuse you? Then this is the blog for you!! What this post is about is poems that are just 2 words long!!!!!!!!!! And they don’t even have to rhyme! What you have to do is think about something (like a pet etc.) and think up 2 words that best describes it. Such as… “My Dog”
Energetic.
Mess.
Post a comment of any Poems you have thought up.
The media is saturated with news of the depressing mess Iraq has become, but no words are more poignant than those written by US service-men written shortly before their deaths. E-mails to family and blog entries provide powerful insight into the thoughts and preoccupations of these confused and homesick young men.
Specialist King, an honors student from Georgia, wrote on the March 7th, 2007
After 232 long, desolate, morose, but somewhat days of tranquility into deployment, I’ve decided that I should start writing some of the things I experienced here in Iraq. I have to say that the events that I have encountered here have changed my outlook on life…
The most recent mission started out as a 24-36 hour air-assault sniper mission in a known al-Qaida stronghold just north of Baghdad. We landed a few hours before daybreak and as soon as I got off the helicopter my night vision broke, I was surrounded by the sound of artillery rounds, people screaming in Arabic, automatic weapons, and the terrain didn’t look anything like what we were briefed. I knew it was going to be a bad day and a half.
This article from the New York Times 25/3/08 contains more journal entries by King and others like him. Their contents are moving and sobering.
Mrs Sweeney
