War

Poppy

Poppy poppy what do you see?
Soldiers dying lying all around me

Poppy poppy...

The Brave

Lying under a blanketed star lit sky
Wondering if or when it's our turn to die...

On TV shows and documentary's we've seen
In Flanders Fields,the First World War machine
...

Just a lad
Fall softly now
Deaths kiss upon
Unfurrowed brow

Just a lad...

Waving af the station
Hanky in her hand
They parted with a kiss
At the platform D...

Circling torn fields of scarlet flowers
a sparrow’s song cuts the lull.
The thunder muffled...

For the greater glory
of the chosen Home Team
let's ship your children off to war
to...

the ellipsis line on going
I was staring into a Deep sleep
every time I closed my eyes...

Call him coward then
Should it please thee
He left before the end of fight
Panicked,...

The red poppies sway in a field somewhere in France
They signify soldiers who didn't stand a chance...

It's time to remember those who fell, 1914 to 1918 soldiers went through hell. Fighting for the freedoms...

I almost time traveled,
to an era that shaped,
the lives of many..
in the North...

The tree-trunk brought him solace
a place to rest his hand
the man more Irish than his...

We saw the mass devastation of incendiary
as we put pen to paper in our diaries
we were...

A time of momentary peace is summoned
Reigning a parade of ringing bells humming
Mud and...