goldenrod
08-16-2008, 03:03 PM
Some Remembered Sounds of War!
The clatter..."Click!" "Click!" "Click!"
Of a wooden stick against iron railings
as I furiously pedaled my tricycle,
at age three,
to get to my aunt's flat to complain that my mother had not fed me lunch
and I was hungry.
Downing a second meal for that lie!
The slow "Thwack!"-"Thwack!"-"Thwack"
On my behind when my mother learned about it,
and meted out, what was then,
suitable punishment!
The urgent two note wavering pulse of the air-raid siren.
Denoting yet another unleashing of explosives on London.
The unmistakable stutter-like moan of the "doodle-bug" and then,
its even more ominous silence!
The sharp "Crack" of anti-aircraft fire,
followed by the soft tinkle of a fine patter of shrapnel.
I.T.M.A...ENSA concerts...Lord Haw Haw...A short wave broadcast of a Luftwaffe party, with music, from Hamburg!
The explosive energy of the V2...unwelcomed introduction to the space-age!
The long, longed for, clear, piercing wail of the final all-clear...
goldenrod.
The clatter..."Click!" "Click!" "Click!"
Of a wooden stick against iron railings
as I furiously pedaled my tricycle,
at age three,
to get to my aunt's flat to complain that my mother had not fed me lunch
and I was hungry.
Downing a second meal for that lie!
The slow "Thwack!"-"Thwack!"-"Thwack"
On my behind when my mother learned about it,
and meted out, what was then,
suitable punishment!
The urgent two note wavering pulse of the air-raid siren.
Denoting yet another unleashing of explosives on London.
The unmistakable stutter-like moan of the "doodle-bug" and then,
its even more ominous silence!
The sharp "Crack" of anti-aircraft fire,
followed by the soft tinkle of a fine patter of shrapnel.
I.T.M.A...ENSA concerts...Lord Haw Haw...A short wave broadcast of a Luftwaffe party, with music, from Hamburg!
The explosive energy of the V2...unwelcomed introduction to the space-age!
The long, longed for, clear, piercing wail of the final all-clear...
goldenrod.