Showing posts with label Sergeant Schultz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sergeant Schultz. Show all posts

Sunday, January 2, 2022

A Time Capsule for our Noblest Soldier - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com 

https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/

poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

 

A Time Capsule for our Noblest Soldier

 

“In war I do not like to take sides”

 

-Sergeant Schultz

 

If there must be time capsules buried beneath

Statues of bold men wearing uniforms

As a remembrance of man’s noblest ideals

Let us have one for dear ol’ Sergeant Schultz

 

A recipe for Hans' apple strudel

A bottle of his favorite Pilsner beer

A Cuban cigar from Colonel Klink’s stash

And a menu from the Hofbrau House

 

But especially the strudel

 

If we must honor soldiers, as some assert

Then let us include their favorite dessert

Thursday, August 13, 2020

A Statue of our Favorite War Hero - poem

Lawrence Hall
mhall46184@aol.com
poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

A Statue of our Favorite War Hero

Let us build a statue of Sergeant Schultz
Standing bravely at the door of Baracke 2
With a bouquet of flowers in one mighty 
     hand
And a slice of apple strudel in the other

And on the base let there be deeply 
     engraved
“In war I do not like to take sides”
On the reverse we will write, “I see 
     nothing!”
And then perhaps on the sides, 
     “Ach du liebe!”

Let us build a statue of Sergeant Schultz
On earth’s last ever battlefield

Sunday, January 18, 2015

Sergeant Schultz Saw Everything


Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com

 

Sergeant Schultz Saw Everything

 

This sad world needs another Sergeant Schultz

That merry miles ponderosus who

Carried his rifle like a walking stick

And celebrated strudel instead of glory 

His innocent joy repudiated

The burning-soul pornography of war

In seeing nothing he saw everything

Through ordinary men living in hope

The liturgy of daily happiness

This sad world needs another Sergeant Schultz