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Loose on the wind
Starts with a poem and then a series of stories which together form the memoirs of Harold Yeoman, an officer who served in Bomber Command during the war, initially as a pilot on Wellingtons and then as an Intelligence Officer. He relates his…
Now it would seem a time
Three verse poem - a time for living, forgetting, and no time to mourn.
I abandon now
Three verses poem about fear, despair and resolution.
Transmutation
Poem abut thinking of a loved one at the end of the day.
Thought
Two verse poem about thoughts.
Hauntings
Two verse poem about things that haunt.
If I should ever die
Six verse poem of instructions should he die.
The fens
Two verse poem.
Chess
Poem about playing chess.
In fever
Three verse poem on love conquering fever.
The fullness of living
Sub titled (a prayer before action). Four verse poem about flying and death close at hand and how beautiful was life.
Silent song
Three verse poem about song lying asleep in him but love would fire it.
Sonnet - to a dead poet
Poem about a friend who died too soon.
Fugue - winter
Four verse poem on winter.
Armourer
Poem about armourer loading bombs but would not be there when they were dropped.
This is our night
Contrasts hopelessness, loneliest and death with the joy of love.
Poem
Reminisces the moment when his frightened heart was awakened by love, comparing that to the first breath of Heaven.
Air raid
Two verse poem about bombing.
For C.R.W
Dedicated to C.R.W, killed March 7 1944 in an aircraft accident. Contrasts the pain of death with the serenity of afterlife.