The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 1/14/10

[BlueIris]

"In Memoriam"

The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood
This Eastertide call into mind the men,
Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should
Have gathered them and will do never again.

--Edward Thomas

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. to the soldiers

never to return
to the flowers
of their homeland.
thanks for this one, Blue.

[MiddleFingerMom]

2. Thank you.

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This one made me blink rapidly, and hard.
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If only more of those in power would read poems like this.
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Read them and really GET them.
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Wasn't there a movie where the leader of Russia and the leader of
the U.S. talked to each other's grandchild(ren)?
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Or was that in real life?
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