sijo - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse : War
The Red Horse.
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generated on a game console with SoulCalibur V
sijo - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse : War
you ask how many battles i have fought?
Masada, Nagashino, Inchon
soon the names will mean nothing,
it is all senseless slaughter
weary will be me, my blood-stained blade
goes to another battle.
2014
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SoulCalibur V is a copyrighted video game published by Namco Bandai Games.
Ride of the Valkyries (Apocalypse Now version)
© cheong lee san ( dsnake1 ) 2023
generated on a game console with SoulCalibur V
sijo - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse : War
you ask how many battles i have fought?
Masada, Nagashino, Inchon
soon the names will mean nothing,
it is all senseless slaughter
weary will be me, my blood-stained blade
goes to another battle.
2014
****
SoulCalibur V is a copyrighted video game published by Namco Bandai Games.
Ride of the Valkyries (Apocalypse Now version)
© cheong lee san ( dsnake1 ) 2023
Labels: fantasy, sijo, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, video game, war
posted by dsnake1 at 1:08 AM
13 Comments:
Ah yes, this rider must be getting weary indeed. But then, they are all kept busy (sigh).
Thank you, Rosemary.
unfortunately yes, there are no shortages of conflict. :(
Senseless slaughter is absolutely right. But it still goes on... getting more and more horrifying.
Never ending senselessness, indeed, yet few if any solutions to such trauma.
Rajani,
Yes, it still goes on, unfortunately. :(
Penelope,
Thank you!
Sadly, no solutions in sight. I fear for a new one brewing in the East... :(
I am anti-war, I don't watch war movies or videos. Nice support for me here, thanks.
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Thank you, Jim.
Sometimes I read about war, but I'm not in favor of it. It must be a weary spirit indeed.
Senseless slaughter is the key.
She isn't sleeping much these days, that's for sure. The casual dismissiveness that the names don't matter is chilling.
Priscilla,
Yes, a very weary spirit indeed. :(
Colleen,
Thank you!
Slaughter is always senseless. And needless. :(
Rommy,
War is always looking for a battlefield. I am glad you see the casual dismissiveness in the naming, the battles mentioned spanning nearly two thousand years. :(
Sad and true. War seems (and feels) so huge while is happening. After it's all over, after time steps all over the event, the hugeness becomes lines in book no one remembers quite right.
Thank you, Magaly, for your thoughtful lines.
Sometimes we wonder, if war is necessary or justified, for example, WW2 and the fight against Hitler, even your own country's civil war. And we built monuments to some battlefields, not to glorify war, but to remind us of the pain and the losses, so that it may not happen again.
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