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1944 - “The Germans were sending over small pilotless planes (VIs) of which the nose was a bomb and a biggish one. These “Fly bombs” as they were officially called or “doodle-bugs” as they became known to the public, were powered by a simple jet type engine (like a blow-lamp) and travelled fast and low — about 400 miles an hour. When they reached the distance their makers intended, the engine cut out and the plane dived straight to earth, exploding on contact.”
Written by Arthur C Brougham, Northwood Hills, Middlesex. 1948.
I Am Born
The midwife
wakes at 2 am.
August 23rd 1951.
The drone still sounds in her head.
The buzz.
The silence.
The explosion.
The relief.
The suffocating guilt for 7 years.
She muses: “This baby is our future.”
“No more war.”
“No more killing from a distance.”
I am born at 4 am.
Despite a life
in (forlorn) peace
now
after 74 years
I truly wonder.
And on this day
I hope…I hope...I hope.
All that is left.…is hope.
Robin Kelly, Easter 2026
1944 - “The Germans were sending over small pilotless planes (VIs) of which the nose was a bomb and a biggish one. These “Fly bombs” as they were officially called or “doodle-bugs” as they became known to the public, were powered by a simple jet type engine (like a blow-lamp) and travelled fast and low — about 400 miles an hour. When they reached the distance their makers intended, the engine cut out and the plane dived straight to earth, exploding on contact.”
Written by Arthur C Brougham, Northwood Hills, Middlesex. 1948.
I Am Born
The midwife
wakes at 2 am.
August 23rd 1951.
The drone still sounds in her head.
The buzz.
The silence.
The explosion.
The relief.
The suffocating guilt for 7 years.
She muses: “This baby is our future.”
“No more war.”
“No more killing from a distance.”
I am born at 4 am.
Despite a life
in (forlorn) peace
now
after 74 years
I truly wonder.
And on this day
I hope…I hope...I hope.
All that is left.…is hope.
Robin Kelly, Easter 2026
