I'm a great poem lover. I like to write poems and read poems whether fun or serious. I would like to share this one with you all, as i think it is possibly the most moving poem i have read so far. It is a Spike Milligan poem who was a fantastic poet and this poem would have come from his heart, as he would have experienced these feelings first hand.

THE SOLDIERS AT LAURO

Young are our dead, like babies they lie, the wombs they blest once, not healed dry.

And yet - too soon, into each space, a cold earth falls, on colder face.

Quite still they lie, these fresh-cut reeds, clutched in earth, like winter seeds.

But they will not bloom, when called by spring, to burst with leaf, and blossoming.

They sleep on, in silent dust, as crosses rot, and helmets rust.

What do you think people?