Impression sketch
of snow bound trenches, Galicia - by Jamie. From an original image that can be
seen at: <http://ww1blog.osborneink.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Galiciai_llsok_egy_foly_homokos_rszn_180120.jpg>
[Accessed: 3 April 2016]
Within the bitter
fight of a front,
Arrived onslaught
of nature's thaw.
Over seven days temperatures
Began to rise to burn
wintery ice.
Under water's manifest,
across
Galicia and
Bukovina, the lower
Ground of
trenches became as
Viaducts, to push
out Germans.
Driven onto the
parapets led to
Result of
exposures to Russian
Fire - forcing the
enemy back
Down into the
flowing, icy waters.
Suggestions came
how Germans
Side having
nervous prompts -
From possible
advance of allies -
Their intentions
being to interfere.
Whilst sodden
earth inhibited, all
Activities were
moved towards
Higher, stable
ground - separate
Germans attacks were carried out.
With no unified
aim, detached
Forces worked
forwards to hinder
The unified
Russian preparations -
In the wet, as if
in slow motion.
The amounts of
melt brought
Disadvantage of using all heavy
Motors, as prisoners
groaned
From irregular food
supplies.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1916. Russian
Army - A Flooded Front. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 3 April 1916. P.6. Col.1. Available at: <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12206732/Daily-Telegraph-April-3-1916.html> [Accessed: 3 April 2016].
Mann, J., 2016. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 3 April 2016).
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