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Guernsey Poets is back!
Fellow poets,
The Guernsey Poets blog is back!
Please note that there have been some minor changes to the way the blog operates.
The submissions email address has changed to guernseypoets@gmail.com
A new ratings system has been introduced for the reader. Underneath each poem you will find a selection of feedback options. Feel free to tick whichever option matches your feeling about the poem.
Comments will no longer be accepted or published by the blog.
The Guernsey Poets blog is back!
Please note that there have been some minor changes to the way the blog operates.
The submissions email address has changed to guernseypoets@gmail.com
A new ratings system has been introduced for the reader. Underneath each poem you will find a selection of feedback options. Feel free to tick whichever option matches your feeling about the poem.
Comments will no longer be accepted or published by the blog.
Life Line - Guernsey Poet
I have some good news for you all;
I have been contacted by a friend who has offered to take over the running of the Guernsey Poets Blog.
In order for this to happen a number of changes will need to be made to the blog, not least a new email address for submissions. It will take a while to set things up so please bear with us.
I would like to thank you all for the many messages of thanks and support I have had during the last week, they are very much appreciated.
Please watch this space for further details.
John Buchanan
Merry Christmas - John Buchanan
Merry Christmas everyone.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank two special groups of people who will not be with their families today. Please bear a thought for them as you sit down with your families or friends.
For all those serving with the Armed Forces, whether at home or abroad thank you, my thoughts and prayers are with you.
I would also like to thank all those serving with Sea Shepherd’s Operation Relentless in the Southern Ocean.
The following poem is an account of one of the best demonstrations of what can be achieved at Christmas; I would like to reiterate the sentiments of the last two lines.
Once again, happy Christmas and peace and goodwill to all.
A Carol From Flanders - Frederick Niven (1878-1944)
In Flanders on the Christmas morn
The trenched foemen lay,
the German and the Briton born,
And it was Christmas Day.
The red sun rose on fields accurst,
The gray fog fled away;
But neither cared to fire the first,
For it was Christmas Day!
They called from each to each across
The hideous disarray,
For terrible has been their loss:
"Oh, this is Christmas Day!"
Their rifles all they set aside,
One impulse to obey;
'Twas just the men on either side,
Just men — and Christmas Day.
They dug the graves for all their dead
And over them did pray:
And Englishmen and Germans said:
"How strange a Christmas Day!"
Between the trenches then they met,
Shook hands, and e'en did play
At games on which their hearts were set
On happy Christmas Day.
Not all the emperors and kings,
Financiers and they
Who rule us could prevent these things —
For it was Christmas Day.
Oh ye who read this truthful rime
From Flanders, kneel and say:
God speed the time when every day
Shall be as Christmas Day.
Frederick Niven (1878-1944)
I would like to take this opportunity to thank two special groups of people who will not be with their families today. Please bear a thought for them as you sit down with your families or friends.
For all those serving with the Armed Forces, whether at home or abroad thank you, my thoughts and prayers are with you.
I would also like to thank all those serving with Sea Shepherd’s Operation Relentless in the Southern Ocean.
The following poem is an account of one of the best demonstrations of what can be achieved at Christmas; I would like to reiterate the sentiments of the last two lines.
Once again, happy Christmas and peace and goodwill to all.
A Carol From Flanders - Frederick Niven (1878-1944)
In Flanders on the Christmas morn
The trenched foemen lay,
the German and the Briton born,
And it was Christmas Day.
The red sun rose on fields accurst,
The gray fog fled away;
But neither cared to fire the first,
For it was Christmas Day!
They called from each to each across
The hideous disarray,
For terrible has been their loss:
"Oh, this is Christmas Day!"
Their rifles all they set aside,
One impulse to obey;
'Twas just the men on either side,
Just men — and Christmas Day.
They dug the graves for all their dead
And over them did pray:
And Englishmen and Germans said:
"How strange a Christmas Day!"
Between the trenches then they met,
Shook hands, and e'en did play
At games on which their hearts were set
On happy Christmas Day.
Not all the emperors and kings,
Financiers and they
Who rule us could prevent these things —
For it was Christmas Day.
Oh ye who read this truthful rime
From Flanders, kneel and say:
God speed the time when every day
Shall be as Christmas Day.
Frederick Niven (1878-1944)
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