Yperite

late at night 
a mist 
fills the valley.
without knowing 
it suffocates 
like a dark power. 
on the fields 
our dead bodies 
and under the grass 
a brown soil
 

"Tyne Cot" 

when you left 
for the front
you were 
living heroes 
and now 
you’re on top 
of the hill 
where only
poppies 
blow......

 
© Jan  Theunick

Short Bio

Jan Theuninck was born in Belgium in 1954 where he lives and works as painter and poet; autodidact, he is an abstract artist, active in different substyles; most of his work and poetry are  based on his social and political convictions; considered as a lone crusader, he's building alliances for a new society.