I walked upon the battlefield
\nand saw a grotesque scene revealed:
\nthe corpses there, both friend and foe,
\nall formed a sort of weird rainbow.<\/p>\n
The enemy and our men too–
\nsome bled dark red and some bled blue.
\nThe blood of others was bright green–
\na stranger sight I’ve never seen.<\/p>\n
When bullets mowed doomed soldiers down
\nblood sometimes came out rusty brown,
\nand who would in their right mind think
\nthe blood of many would be pink?<\/p>\n
Oh what a gross, macabre sight–
\nto see men bleeding black and white,
\nand on the ground where bodies lay
\nI saw big blotches of dark gray.<\/p>\n
Around this place of pain and woe
\nsome sprawled in pools of indigo,
\nand where brave fighters their ends met
\nwere yellow stains and violet.<\/p>\n
How sad that young lads had to lose
\ntheir lives in puddles of chartreuse.
\nI thought it simply could not be
\nthat orange blood would flow so free.<\/p>\n
In places there was purple blood\u2014
\nat first a stream, and then a flood,
\nand youths shot down in life too soon
\nbled for their nations dark maroon.<\/p>\n
Although they many colors bled
\nthey share one fate: they all are dead.
\n______________________________<\/p>\n
Tom Greening:<\/strong> \u201cI engage in five professional activities:<\/em> I walked upon the battlefield
\nFaculty Member at Saybrook University<\/em>
\nPrivate Practice of Psychotherapy<\/em>
\nClinical Professor of Psychology, UCLA<\/em>
\nInternational Editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology<\/em>
\nWriting (Poetry).\u201d<\/em>
\nwww.tomgreening.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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