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Friday, 12 June 2015

Chunuk Bair Poem - Personal Connections

Poem:
At night we climbed a ridge

from the beach up to where

the Turks stood over us.

Finally we were equal warriors,

cresting like a wave,

not washed against a fiery cliff.

We held our ground for two days.

At daybreak, their leader –

a great man with a pocketwatch

and a whip – rose up.

His men surged towards us,

firing from their motherland,

and we fell like rain.

When the snow came,

we left our dead behind.


Connections:
I went to camp and we owned it for 2 days.

In the morning I climbed up a rock near a beach in Samoa.



As I was standing in the water at a beach, the waves were coming forward like the Turkish people did.




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