After war, for sixty long years, held captive in enemy lands,
As a prisoner of war, forgotten for so long, he escaped in empty hands,
To hometown, returning with snowy hair, without a welcome. But no wife,
His solitary burial ceremony reveals his distorted and unhappy life.
(18th, Sep.,2023, Kinsley Lee)
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Author:
Kinsley Lee (Pseudonym) (
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- Comment from author about the poem: I wrote this poem at the burial ceremony for the returned POW during Korean War.
- Category: Short story
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