Photo-Poetry Challenge : Photo 6

The muse kept hammering me for some war poetry, and so here it is. If it can be called that.

I was thinking what can be on the minds of soldiers on the eve of a big battle. I wrote this piece based on the battle of the Metaurus between the Romans and the Carthaginians in 207 B.C.

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image by Bluesky_Liz


they may not see another sundown


Soon their spear tips
will glint in the moonlight

but for now they watch the sun
going down over the hills

as if their archers had shot it down
painting the sky with angry slashes
of crimson and gold

for tomorrow facing the Carthaginians
and their mercenaries in the valley
they may not see another sundown


15/06/06
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