Poppies Poem by Alison Gaff

Poppies



The poppies fill the towers moat
A sea of bright red flowers,
They represent the bravest men
Who gave their lives for ours.

Some where so young they had not lived,
Nor loved nor grown, nor flowered.
Sent to fight on foreign land.
Where war took and devoured.

100 years it now has passed
Since Flanders field turned red,
All those lives so sadly lost
Must be rememre-red.

Monday, February 13, 2017
Topic(s) of this poem: war memories
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
I wrote this after I had been up to the Tower of London to see the ceramic poppies installation to mark 100yrs since WW1. I found it very
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Alison Gaff

Alison Gaff

Surrey, England
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