Sunday, 21 September 2025

BOER WAR: LAST SUMMER THINGS WERE GREENER... (My poem about John Byam Shaw's 1901 painting...)

 Boer War: Last Summer Things Were Greener…



The rippling waters

Intrude the timelessness

Of this memorial,

Like the tide of war has

Invaded the boundless fatality

Of her love…


Pete Ray…


John Byam Shaw’s painting from 1901, depicting his sister Margaret mourning the death of her cousin George…

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