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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FECKLESS YEARS, by JAMES MONAHAN Poet's Biography First Line: The wounded took the stone-eyed girls Last Line: A crooner sang their dirge. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; War Injuries; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War | |||
THE wounded took the stone-eyed girls, danced on a maudlin floor to music that broken nerves had chosen. And the time was after war. They danced for twenty years. They danced to the hammering, same refrain, louder and louder as though they sought to drown the sound of pain — until it became the lullaby of a world that had buried sorrow beneath the muddied pool of pleasure; so would have killed the morrow. The feckless years! For testament They left their sons a scourge. A war has been their epitaph. A crooner sang their dirge. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PORT OF EMBARKATION by RANDALL JARRELL GREATER GRANDEUR by ROBINSON JEFFERS FAMILY GROUP by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH THE BRITISH COUNTRYSIDE IN PICTURES by JAMES MCMICHAEL READING MY POEMS FROM WORLD WAR II by WILLIAM MEREDITH ALBERTINE ASKS FOR A POEM by JAMES MONAHAN |
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