Showing posts with label red poppy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label red poppy. Show all posts



§ "...We Shall Not Sleep..."


In honor of our Vets, Men and Women, who have sacrificed all, and the now recently released-to-theater movie, 1917,  I draw the red poppy...






...excerpt from poem, 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.


Read background of poem and author and soldiers who retrieved it; now its popularity and symbolism....HERE

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