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Poppy Wreaths – A Haibun

Today, for Haibun Monday, Frank Tassone at D’Verse Poets, has prompted us with ‘Memorial’ as today is Memorial Day in the US. When I think of the armed services, the memory it invokes for me is a visit to France many years ago. My mother’s first husband was killed in the D Day invasion in WordContinue reading “Poppy Wreaths – A Haibun”

Lest We Forget

Lest We Forget As I look from the train at the rolling countryside I see a highway of crosses Stark white against green A remembrance of losses Mile after mile of heartache In peaceful Normandy Graves of courageous soldiers Laid to rest with poppy wreaths The weight of nations on their shoulders Lives relinquished inContinue reading “Lest We Forget”