Do you know what the red Poppy flower represents? These two well-known poems explain it very well.
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.
By John McCrae
The Poppy
Nature created a flower
With petals of brilliant red.
Who’d have thought such a beautiful flower
Would be used to remember the dead?
For when all the guns have stopped firing
And there’s only the mud and the rain.
God sends down his little red flowers
To cover the lads who remain.
So remember every November
When we hold our remembrance day,
Of the lads who lie beneath the poppies
And the price they had to pay.
Author Unknown
Because the price the soldiers pay for our freedom is permanent, perhaps we should celebrate the meaning of the Poppy flower every day of our lives. We should thank every veteran we see and do everything we can to support the military that protects us now.
Remember, it is because of them that we are free!
Let the encouraging words in these near a river posts help you
soar like an eagle above life’s storms.
