Warring Words

Warring Words
"My subject is war and the pity of war. The poetry is in the pity" - Wilfred Owen
Wether we like it or not, the world and its people have always been driven by war. It is a well known fact that peace is simply the time between the end of one war and the beginning of another equally senseless war. It appears that peace is simply a pit stop in the world's quest for global conquest. This goes someway to explain why war themes dominate modern poetry and songs. For many their only way to escape the horrors of war is to engage in poetry that takes them to another realm where…