‘Edenbray in Exile’
A Retrospective Anthology of 50 Poems, Articles and Essays
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Love Letters
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We take the scenes of lost refuge
and write them on our sleeves
Bend spoons we use as implements
like ancient man hiding in rocks
Pioneers caught somewhere between
bandits, lawyers and pilots
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We sat under the stars pulling wool
around us, throwing logs on fires
The sky prussian and chrome has lights
embedded ~ that shape your beauty
I scribbled on rough pieces of hemp I had
collected and wondered if it was you
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In the grey mid-distance lights shoot
and dance to the crackling gunfire
Maybe this is the moment I should stop now
~ we’ve said hello, so goodbye
And the summer sun will return to this
awful place and touch your brow
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writtenbyedenbray05.04.14
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#Authors Note : This is a War Poem – it was written 100 years after the ‘1st World War’ began.
28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918
It was written by someone who has absolutely no experience of War 1st hand. I wrote it as my own personal and pathetic remembrance of that horrific War as I wanted to make some personal connection and still write about something I think I know something about. It is a Love Poem.
During the so-called Great War it is estimated 21,391,452 people were killed or died.
edenbraytoday
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The chart below provides estimates of the number of soldiers killed, wounded, and reported missing during World War I. Exact numbers are often disputed and are nearly impossible to determine for a variety of reasons. Different countries used different methods to count their dead and injured, and some methods were more reliable than others. Records of some countries were destroyed during the war and its aftermath. Also, some countries may have changed the number of casualties in their official records for political reasons. The numbers of civilians from each country killed during the war are even more difficult to estimate. The numbers in the chart reflect the estimates made by most historians today. ~ (chart borrowed from Facing History and Ourselves)
| Country | Total mobilized forces | Killed or died | Wounded | Prisoners or missing | Total casualties |
| Allied Powers: | |||||
| Russia | 12,000,000 | 1,700,000 | 4,950,000 | 2,500,000 | 9,150,000 |
| British Empire | 8, 904,467 | 908,371 | 2,090,212 | 191,652 | 3,190,235 |
| France | 8,410,000 | 1,357,800 | 4,266,000 | 537,000 | 6,160,800 |
| Italy | 5,615,000 | 650,000 | 947,000 | 600,000 | 2,197,000 |
| United States | 4,734,991 | 116,516 | 204,002 | —— | 320,518 |
| Japan | 800,000 | 300 | 907 | 3 | 1210 |
| Romania | 750,000 | 335,706 | 120,000 | 80,000 | 535,706 |
| Serbia | 707,343 | 45,000 | 133,148 | 152,198 | 331,106 |
| Canada | 424,000 | 59,694 | 172,000 | 3,800 | 235,494 |
| Belgium | 267,000 | 13,716 | 44,686 | 34,659 | 93,061 |
| Greece | 230,000 | 5,000 | 21,000 | 1,000 | 27,000 |
| Portugal | 100,000 | 7,222 | 13,751 | 12,318 | 33,291 |
| Montenegro | 50,000 | 3,000 | 10,000 | 7,000 | 20,000 |
| TOTALS | 42,612,810 | 5,211,809 | 13,003,004 | 4,124,890 | 22,165,291 |
| Central Powers: | |||||
| Germany | 11,000,000 | 1,773,700 | 4,216,058 | 1,152,800 | 7,142,558 |
| Austria-Hungary | 7,800,000 | 1,200,000 | 3,620,000 | 2,200,000 | 7,020,000 |
| Turkey | 2,850,000 | 325,000 | 400,000 | 250,000 | 975,000 |
| Bulgaria | 1,200,000 | 87,500 | 152,390 | 27,029 | 266,919 |
| TOTALS | 22,850,000 | 3,386,200 | 8,388,448 | 3,629,829 | 15,404,477 |
| GRAND TOTALS | 65,462,810 | 8,598,009 | 21,391,452 | 7,754,719 | 37,569,768 |
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