{"id":3635395,"date":"2006-03-20T01:13:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-20T01:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/2006\/03\/20\/minstrels-Vergissmeinnicht-Keith-Douglas\/"},"modified":"2007-11-25T23:58:42","modified_gmt":"2007-11-25T23:58:42","slug":"minstrels-Vergissmeinnicht-Keith-Douglas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/?p=3635395","title":{"rendered":"[minstrels] Vergissmeinnicht &#8212; Keith Douglas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='sustuff'>Stumbleupon <a href='http:\/\/bunty.stumbleupon.com\/review\/3635395\/'>Review<\/a> of :<br \/>\n\t<a href='http:\/\/www.cs.rice.edu\/~ssiyer\/minstrels\/poems\/710.html'>http:\/\/www.cs.rice.edu\/~ssiyer\/minstrels\/poems\/710.html<\/a><a href='http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/url\/www.cs.rice.edu\/~ssiyer\/minstrels\/poems\/710.html'><img src='http:\/\/bunty.tv\/images\/smallstumble.png'><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><font face=\"courier\" color=\"#aaaaaa\"><\/p>\n<ul><b>Vergissmeinnicht<\/b><font color=\"black\"> <i>&#8220;forget me not&#8221;<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p>Three weeks gone and the combatants gone<br \/>\nreturning over the nightmare ground<br \/>\nwe found the place again, and found<br \/>\nthe soldier sprawling in the sun.<\/p>\n<p>The frowning barrel of his gun<br \/>\novershadowing. As we came on<br \/>\nthat day, he hit my tank with one<br \/>\nlike the entry of a demon.<\/p>\n<p>Look. Here in the gunpit spoil<br \/>\nthe dishonoured picture of his girl<br \/>\nwho has put: Steffi. Vergissmeinnicht.<br \/>\nin a copybook gothic script.\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img209.imageshack.us\/img209\/1232\/t631523a2tu.jpg\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/underclocker.com\/albums\/ed\/clr.gif\" height=\"320\" width=\"350\" align=\"left\" \/><br \/>\nWe see him almost with content,<br \/>\nabased, and seeming to have paid<br \/>\nand mocked at by his own equipment<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s hard and good when he&#8217;s decayed.<\/p>\n<p>But she would weep to see today<br \/>\nhow on his skin the swart flies move;<br \/>\nthe dust upon the paper eye<br \/>\nand the burst stomach like a cave.<\/p>\n<p>For here the lover and killer are mingled<br \/>\nwho had one body and one heart.<br \/>\nAnd death who had the soldier singled<br \/>\nhas done the lover mortal hurt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Keith Douglas &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><\/font><font color=\"#666666\">(The photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Capa\">Robert Capa<\/a>, taken during the Spanish Civil War, is probably the <i>first<\/i> to capture someone being killed in &#8216;action&#8217;)<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stumbleupon Review of : http:\/\/www.cs.rice.edu\/~ssiyer\/minstrels\/poems\/710.html Vergissmeinnicht &#8220;forget me not&#8221; Three weeks gone and the combatants gone returning over the nightmare ground we found the place again, and found the soldier sprawling in the sun. The frowning barrel of his gun &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/?p=3635395\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":""},"categories":[1488],"tags":[305],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635395"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3635395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3635395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3635395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3635395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}