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Cross Country<\/strong><\/p>\n A reluctant concession Unsupervised Once out of sight Then returning <\/p>\n <\/p>\n David Subacchi<\/strong> lives in Wales (UK) where he was born of Italian roots. He studied at the University of Liverpool and he has three poetry collections with Cestrian Press First Cut<\/em> (2012), Hiding in Shadows<\/em> (2014) and Not Really a Stranger<\/em> (2016).\u00a0 David has also recently published a collection of Sonnets A Terrible Beauty<\/em> in commemoration of Ireland\u2019s 1916 Easter Rising. He also writes in Welsh and Italian and blogs at http:\/\/www.writeoutloud.net\/ Cross Country A reluctant concession For those of insufficient bulk Or violent disposition To take part in the awful Battle of blood and mud Laughingly referred to As a game. Unsupervised Our route wound Far away from The killing fields Past gasworks And railway lines Through the village. Once out of sight A walking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[136,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13404"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13825,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13404\/revisions\/13825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFor those of insufficient bulk
\nOr violent disposition
\nTo take part in the awful
\nBattle of blood and mud
\nLaughingly referred to
\nAs a game.<\/p>\n
\nOur route wound
\nFar away from
\nThe killing fields
\nPast gasworks
\nAnd railway lines
\nThrough the village.<\/p>\n
\nA walking pace
\nCigarettes
\nSweets
\nTalking to local girls
\nCursing the brutality
\nOf the egg shaped ball.<\/p>\n
\nTo the jeers
\nOf shirt ripped
\nCasualties
\nOur mock exhaustion
\nToo dramatic
\nFooling no one.<\/p>\n