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John McCrae wrote In Flanders Fields in 1915 after losing a close friend and witnessing poppies growing in battle scarred fields. This poem is internationally renowned as it inspired the use of the poppy for commemorating all servicemen and women killed in conflict.

In Flanders Fields  

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.  
There was interest in Adrian’s Prayer Poem Sunday, July 2 2023.
Here it is for you to reflect on.
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The world is murmuring again. 
A soul perplexed, a soul in pain, or joy, or fear, or seeking gain.
A mixing-pot, many a tongue, antiquities to calls still young. 
This is community, all are in the loop, bubbling, stirring, circling like a pot of soup.
All are at the table, one there is who knows;
Before, Behind, Within, Beyond - countless essence flows.
Savouring and sharing, weaving threads of care. 
So who can taste the flavour, now, who is really there?

All will get sustenance, some will find it chilling, some will find a hidden dream;
for some it will be thrilling.
Most come back and who can say: what is real or what we pray?
Not to be thought about.  Eh, not to fuss, it is the prayer that's praying us.

                                                                                                                   Adrian McNeil

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​SOLDIER TREES
Alan Skerritt
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​There was a line of soldier trees
That walked across the hill
And darkly looked so splendid
In the evening in the still.
 
They held the ridge against the night
No fright of might
No flight of light
 
Coloured legions of the sky
Banners touched by every dye
In majestic pageantry retreat
Regroup in dawning strength to meet
Those silent sentinels and greet
Another day.

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SOMME POPPIES
Alan Skerritt
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Your bodies, blood and bones
Tired, spilt, broken
Have blessed Somme soil
Sanctified Somme soil.
 
Your indomitable spirit
Issues as new life
Simple, not complex
As all great truths are...

​Producing Poppies
Crisp colour
Plain
Red for the dead
Born again
Red for sunset
 
Interrupting
Solemn Somme Slumber
To soften those fields
Of cruel carnage
To remove the rage
With painted poppies of peace.


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