They fell
in fields full of
forget-me-nots, poppies
and bleuets, their memory a
lesson.
Are you wearing your poppy, or bleuet or forget-me-not these days? Armistice Day, or Remembrance Day is coming up. A day to remember those who fell in both World Wars, and, as we do in The Netherlands on 4 May, all those who fell in armed conflict. This remembering is important, especially now that the people who have experienced the big wars are slowly fading. We are forgetting. We are forgetting and not learning the lessons. There are too many conflicts in the world today. And we are not doing enough to stop them.
When you put on your poppy, bleuet (cornflower) or forget-me-not, think not just about those who fell for your freedom, but also those who fell in vain, and about how we can learn from these losses and be better in the future.
PS: Where the poppy is the national flower of remembrance for the UK, in France it's the bleuet and in Germany it is the forget-me-not.
The poem above is a cinquain, a five-line poem, now often written with 2, 4, 6, 8 and 2 syllables per line. In general, any five-line poem can be called a cinquain.
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Poésie de la vie
Those who fell also include the ones that were victimised, othered, deported and killed. Like Anne Frank.
