{"id":15025,"date":"2018-11-11T16:25:23","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T18:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nearariver.com\/?p=15025"},"modified":"2026-09-10T11:23:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:23:04","slug":"poppy-near-a-river-bj-rae-eagle-encouraging-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/poppy-near-a-river-bj-rae-eagle-encouraging-words\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poppy Flower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>Do you know what the red Poppy flower represents?\u00a0 These two well-known poems explain it very well.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>In Flanders Fields<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In Flanders Fields the poppies blow<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Between the crosses row on row.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">That mark our place; and in the sky<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The larks, still bravely singing, fly<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Scarce heard amid the guns below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We are the Dead. 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style=\"text-align: center;\">Who\u2019d have thought such a beautiful flower<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Would be used to remember the dead?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For when all the guns have stopped firing<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And there\u2019s only the mud and the rain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">God sends down his little red flowers<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To cover the lads who remain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So remember every November<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">When we hold our remembrance day,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Of the lads who lie beneath the poppies<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And the price they had to pay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Author Unknown<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Because the price the soldiers pay for our freedom is permanent, perhaps we should celebrate the meaning of the Poppy flower 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