Le Voyage Magnifique

Through the Camera's Lens

Through my lens, a soldier's life is portrayed,
along with all the sacrifices made.
I see such vile atrocities unfold,
recording them for others to behold.

Sensor captures barbaric carnival,
preserved in powerful pictorial.
My photographic memory retains
the gruesome scenes with battle's bloody stains.

When hero's flag-draped casket is conveyed
down ramp from C-17 cargo hold
in solemn military ritual,
I document family's grieving pains.

Notes ▼

1. The Quaternion form of poetry has a structure of two quatrains made up of rhyming couplets and a third quatrain whose four lines rhyme with each of those couplets in sequence, as defined in the following link: http://www.poetrybase.info/forms/002/203.shtml
and demonstrated in this one: https://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/topic/1003-mathematics-merges-with-verse/#quate...

2. Powerful pictorial: https://time.com/vietnam-photos/

3. Military ritual: https://www.mortuary.af.mil/About-Us/Dignified-Transfer/