Normandy

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Boats glide across the Channel

Craft slam into the beach

Men run uphill to battle

Men jump into the breach

Arrows fly towards the eye

Bullets dart into the heart

Blood drips from those've died

Blood drains into this Earth

Have made quite a few changes to this, and am still not satisfied with it, so might end up changing it again. Have only just realised typing it up here that it's ended up a little like the mock-yuefu I did before, with the couplets of five-word lines.

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