Blood Red Poppies Poem by Colin Ian Jeffery
Blood Red Poppies
During the battle of the Somme, France,1916, the British sustained 60,000 casualties on the first day. Torrential rains turned the battlefield into a quagmire. In one month the Allies advanced five miles at the cost of 450,000 German.200,000 French and 420,000 British lives. I lost two uncles
Blood red poppies sway
Over silent fields
Where birds no longer sing.
Once big guns roared
And young men
Suffered terror in the mud.
Chaplains searched the carnage for God
Finding him gassed and bloody
Crucified upon the wire
One poppy lost among the thousands.
I was able to visualize evrything.i love the style and openness of it. I have became a fan from this poem.
i have just become a fan of it aswell after reading it
I am most favorably impressed with your poem Blood Red Poppies. I do not know if it is more accurate to say that you have resurrected the horror of national homicide for us, or exhumed the fallen brave, whose aspirations and hopes were buried long ago.
During the battle of the Somme, France,1916, the British sustained 60,000 casualties on the first day. Torrential rains turned the battlefield into a quagmire. In one month the Allies advanced five miles at the cost of 450,000 German.200,000 French and 420,000 British lives. I lost two uncles Blood red poppies sway Over silent fields Where birds no longer sing. - - - - - -War brings such massive destruction of human lives! ! A sad but beautiful poem thanks for sharing.
war was a tragic thing to happen in our time. enjoyed your poem Colin. Alan
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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Crucified upon the wire One poppy lost among the thousands. Good work.