Studdert Kennedy Geoffrey Anketell

Poems by Studdert Kennedy Geoffrey Anketell

Indifference

... e and left the streets without a soul to see,And Jesus crouched against a wall and cried for Calvary ...

Missing -- Believed Killed: On reading a Mother's letter

... to keep one thing, The joy light in his eyes:God has not even let her know Where his dead body lies ...

A Scrap of Paper

... Just a little scrap of paper In a yellow envelope,And the whole world is a ruin, Even Hope. ...

The Secret

... been and got ye, And ye 'ave to stick the pain,If ye 'aven't got a fag on, Why it 'urts as bad again ...

The Spirit

... battered trenches,Are like the bloody butchers' benches,And the air is thick with stenches, Carry on ...

To Stretcher Bearers

... , stretcher-case, boys,Bring him aht a cup o' tea!Inasmuch as ye have done itYe have done it unto Me ...

War

... There's a proud and tearless woman,Seeing pictures in the fire ...

What's the Good?

... When they grows up British men,'Cause we tamed the Prussian tyrant, And brought Peace to earth again ...

Woodbine Willie

... ymbol Of unpaid -- unpayable debt,For the men to whom I owed God's Peace, I put off with a cigarette ...