#armisticeday

[fred34543]

Poppies

Imagine a field of dead poppies, With a dead sun overhead, Imagine a field of dead poppies, Each petal freshly bled.

Imagine a field of dead poppies, And a bench sitting by the side, Sitting with a view of the poppies Whose memory never died

And in a few days' time, Nothing but bare barren earth, Lest we forget their death, Death for a new world’s rebirth,

Imagine a field of wild flowers, There where the poppies once fought, Imagine a field of wild flowers, Where poppies were once cut short.

I hope you enjoyed this late remembrance day poetry, and if you did be sure to like and check out my blog for more (Fred's Poetry Journal link here).

[stazjohnson]

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.

[impoliticwestie]

Armistice Day, London, 2023

[democracyunderground]

Kurt Vonnegut "Breakfast of Champions"

I will come to a time in my backwards trip when November eleventh, accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called Armistice Day. When I was a boy, and when Dwayne Hoover was a boy, all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month.

It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.

Armistice Day has become Veterans’ Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans’ Day is not.

[lifeinbrick]

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. We will remember them.

[positivegreenford]

Greenford War Memorial, Greenford Broadway, Greenford, London Borough of Ealing, London, UK, November 2021. #remembrance #Armistice Day #WW1 #WW2 #memorial #lestweforget #Greenford #LondonBoroughofEaling #London #UK #November2021 #suburbs #suburbia #suburban #photography

[flaminjoeuk]

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them 🪖 #remembranceday #lestweforget #remembrance #poppy #poppies #ww #remembrancesunday #remember #wewillrememberthem #worldwar #armisticeday #veterans #poppyappeal #war #poppyday #UK #army #neverforget #military #art #love #britain #memorial #armistice #veteransday #history #soldiers #photography #armedforces (at Wales) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWIepz1od_7/?utm_medium=tumblr

[brummiephotography]

#lestweforget🌹 #armisticeday #neverforget #armistice #lestweforget #1100 https://www.instagram.com/p/CHcpC-wjA6W/?igshid=1vr7kyadqixf3