Tag Archive | Poppies
So many wars
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes:
Photo ©Avishai Teicher So many wars after so many years, So many deaths and so many tears, So many poppies that blow on the hill, And still we keep sending our men out to kill. The poppies that blow in the fields of the Somme, Are the same as…
Why?
Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
Tower of London, Getty images “the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” 888,246 ceramic poppies, created by ceramic artist Paul Cummins surround the Tower of London. A river of blood. Each poppy represents a British military fatality during the First World War. There…
In the fields of the flat lands
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes:
In the north, in Flanders, where the earth is deep Are the golden fields where the mud was red And beneath the crosses hospital white Lie the broken bones of a million dead. Now in the flat lands poppies blow Around the fields where the grain grows high And…
Poppies for peace
Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
There is a gentleman I know, a man of the sea, whose name is Mick. Not a young man, not any more. Today his boots will be polished, his medals will gleam on his chest, and his beloved dog will walk, unseen now, by his side, shepherding…
Echoing Through Time
Originally posted on A Blog Less Traveled:
Lost Voices Blood red poppies grow In memory of lost voices Gone but never silent A mournful melody Echoing through time © Shawn D. Standfast, 2014. All Rights reserved Image found on the Internet
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