{"id":8987,"date":"2024-05-07T18:02:27","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T22:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=8987"},"modified":"2025-11-30T15:12:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T20:12:03","slug":"the-poppies-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=8987","title":{"rendered":"The Poppies Blow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Poppies\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

My Mom planted these poppies, I don’t know when exactly, would have been circa 1980. She would’ve gotten the seeds from my Grandma who had them around her house. I don’t know when Grandma planted hers either, would’ve been circa 1960. The poppies are a beautiful memory of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t like the poem, “In Flanders Fields”, where this post title “The Poppies Blow” comes from. In the poem the dead, fallen in battle during WW I, exhort the living to “take up the quarrel with the foe” or else the dead won’t be able to rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we ever learn?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nIn Flanders Fields\n<\/div>\n
\nBy John McCrae\n<\/div>\n
\nIn Flanders fields the poppies blow\nBetween the crosses, row on row,\nThat mark our place; and in the sky\nThe larks, still bravely singing, fly\nScarce heard amid the guns below.\n<\/div>\n
\nWe are the Dead. Short days ago\nWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,\nLoved and were loved, and now we lie,\nIn Flanders fields.\n<\/div>\n
\nTake up our quarrel with the foe:\nTo you from failing hands we throw\nThe torch; be yours to hold it high.\nIf ye break faith with us who die\nWe shall not sleep, though poppies grow\n<\/div>\n
\nIn Flanders fields.\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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