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 Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 7:42 pm
In Flanders Fields
By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-191 cool
Canadian Army
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.
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Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 8:48 pm
That poem always makes me cry.
cry
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Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 9:04 pm
I didn't mean to make anyone cry... it's just such a very beautiful poem and I wanted to share it...
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Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 1:10 am
|~*^.[Jay].^*~|
You should see what Margaret Atwood did with that poem. It's really cool. She took the words of the first verse and fleshed them out with her own stories. If you like the original, you should read her transformation.
It doesn't make me cry, but it is very beautiful.
|~*^.[Shadow was here].^*~|
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Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 11:58 am
Aww. That's beautiful.
I've never read it before.
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Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:21 pm
I had heard about it often, but never read it until I posted it...
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Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 6:07 am
`|"[i love that poem.
its beautiful.
on the school birthday i discovered it in our school's hymn book
no idea
how it would be sung.]"`|
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 12:05 pm
[ Message temporarily off-line ]
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Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 11:59 pm
I'm with TMO. Every year on ANZAC day that poem gets recited at schools across Australia, and every year my brain tunes it out a little more. Over-use ruins all potentially good things.
I voted 'creepy'. The last verse is like 'we will haunt you if you forget us'. D00d.
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