Exhibition – The Spanish Civil War,
photos of anarchists who fought but fell,
intrigued me, wanted to discover more
of their belief, to hear what they would tell
of Barcelona which they partly ran,
I learnt the socialist view from Orwell.
Picasso’s Guernica, became a fan
of all the arts that reflected that time,
three years of Spain shouting no pasaran
to the fascists, long way to their decline.
The anarchist Durruti was shot dead,
funeral – half a million stood in line.
We’ll join the fight – two thousand British said;
found their monument in London one day,
it gave the reason why they went – it read,
‘…their open eyes could see no other way.’
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Tim Bannon
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