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A Grand Parade

Rondeau

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Comment from Jannypan (Jan)
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Michael,
When will it end? Your rondeau is awesome in construction & message. Your refrain fits in nicely. Your lines flow smoothly with great imagery, although a lot of it is sad. You are right. The soldiers 'in the trenches' are used like pawns in the 'game' of war. Who wins? No one really. But the soldiers definitely lose. Those pompous fools who sit in their ivory towers know nothing of the horrors of war.

I commend you for writing such an emotional, and true, rondeau. Your work is amazing. Jan

 Comment Written 13-Sep-2016

Comment from Realist101
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Hello Mikey...you've done a great job with this form of poem! I don't know how you all do it. Wonderful post and timely too! I also like that you use larger fonts to be easier to read. It's heck getting old and losing eyesight. Use

 Comment Written 12-Sep-2016

Comment from Barb Hensongispsaca
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OMG where did this come from? Your muse is working his butt off. Absolutely wonderful telling of the power one has. Perfect rondeau as it flows like a story

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 Comment Written 12-Sep-2016

Comment from Ric Myworld
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Thanks for sharing another of your fine poems. If this one doesn't touch a person's heart with appreciation for our soldiers, and spurn the reasoning of the governments and extremists who wage and teach war, then those people need to be sentence to the battlefield. Great job! :-)

 Comment Written 12-Sep-2016

Comment from Spiritual Echo
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Brilliant. I suspect my words were not taken with the genuine acknowledgement of one soldier to another, but that doesn't matter. This was an outstanding piece of work and I hope people recognize the passion of an incredible poet.

 Comment Written 12-Sep-2016

Comment from Sefiros
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You do an amazing job in describing war's horrors. I like the way you take things like the grand justice of the cause and use them as mere cloaks to strip away all the perception of the grand old cause. Nice job.

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 Comment Written 12-Sep-2016