New poem - 'Lady Margaret Sackville & Andre Breton'
This poem was inspired by the painting of Lady Margaret Sackville by Henry Lintott (1916) in The Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh and the poems and collages by Andre Breton in The Dean Gallery, Edinburgh. Lady Margaret Sackville lived in Edinburgh for many years and wrote vehemently against the First World War. Andre Breton, living in Paris, wrote in the Manifesto for Surrealism how society was in thrall to the 'reign of logic'. He also strongly opposed the War.
Lady
Margaret Sackville & Andre Breton*
never met
wrote
against war
in Manifesto
& Pageant
The Surrealist
The
Children’s Writer
philosophical
as
egg shells
both cared how sons
&
daughters were betrayed
how the search for truth
is overcome
by fear
how slaughtered children, raped women
still go unheard as broken bells
*Lady Margaret Sackville (1881-1963) Poet &
Children’s Writer
Andre Breton
(1896-1966) Founder of Surrealism. Writer, Artist, Poet.
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