General Poetry posted May 28, 2011 | Chapters: | ...4 5 -6- 7... |
Revived story poem
A chapter in the book Steve's Story-Poems
Smiler Jack
by kiwisteveh
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Share A Story In A Poem contest entry
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Revived story poem.
One of my keenest ambitions on FanStory is to win the site contest 'Share a Story in a Poem'. I thought this one might have a chance but obviously the committee disagreed....
For your delectation, I also wrote an alternative (and more likely) ending. That is reproduced as a separate poem called 'Who's Smiling Now' as the next chapter in the book.
This is written in Australian English, and I have tried to reproduce the Australian drawl for some of the characters - I don't think any of it is too difficult to understand.
The Death Railway is a 415 kilometres (258 mi) railway between Bangkok, Thailand, and Rangoon, Burma, built by the Empire of Japan during World War II, to support its forces in the Burma campaign.
Forced labour was used in its construction. About 180,000 Asian labourers and 60,000 Allied POWs worked on the railway. Of these, around 90,000 Asian labourers and 16,000 Allied POWs died as a direct result of the project. The dead POWs included 6,318 British personnel, 2,815 Australians, 2,490 Dutch, about 356 Americans and a smaller number of Canadians and New Zealanders
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and 2 member cents. One of my keenest ambitions on FanStory is to win the site contest 'Share a Story in a Poem'. I thought this one might have a chance but obviously the committee disagreed....
For your delectation, I also wrote an alternative (and more likely) ending. That is reproduced as a separate poem called 'Who's Smiling Now' as the next chapter in the book.
This is written in Australian English, and I have tried to reproduce the Australian drawl for some of the characters - I don't think any of it is too difficult to understand.
The Death Railway is a 415 kilometres (258 mi) railway between Bangkok, Thailand, and Rangoon, Burma, built by the Empire of Japan during World War II, to support its forces in the Burma campaign.
Forced labour was used in its construction. About 180,000 Asian labourers and 60,000 Allied POWs worked on the railway. Of these, around 90,000 Asian labourers and 16,000 Allied POWs died as a direct result of the project. The dead POWs included 6,318 British personnel, 2,815 Australians, 2,490 Dutch, about 356 Americans and a smaller number of Canadians and New Zealanders
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