From Alan~ please send in some original poems to share; I have a couple of new contributors lined up but it will take a week or two to organise….. send poems to: alankeycol@btinternet.com
In all of our six parishes, we are marked by the loss of lives in two world wars, particularly the first world war when so many men from the countryside were called to fight, never to return home.
The Window to St. George at All Saints Iwade was donated in response to the first world war.
Where did I find a face at once so beautiful and sad ?
Crowned with helm and laurels, compassed round with light ?
You might have thought of notes of triumph here,
vestiges of glory;
You might have sought a martial frown, announcing victory;
but no, nothing… nothing but sadness in those eyes;
Saint George, you come to Iwade to assault our hearts
with knowledge of war as carnage, tragedy and loss,
and only thus you hold before us now your shield,
your banner with your cross.
[ on looking at the window of St. George on the south side of the church, at the west end, a memorial of victory at the end of the first world war. ]
