February 13, 2013 Battle Scarred – A Tanka Image Credit: nationalgeographic.com Names long forgotten Came screaming back to haunt me As if yesterday Friends lost on the battlefield Turn dreams to guilty nightmares ~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~ Share this: Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Click to print (Opens in new window) Print Like Loading... Posted in Poetry Tagged battle, battlefield, death, dying, guilt, guilty, nightmares, poem, poetry, PTSD, shell shock, tanka, war 6 Comments