* Battle of the Somme comenced 1st July 1916
100 years on;
our silence
for their clamour of war.
our silence
for their clamour of war.
100 years on;
whistles end our silence
for the clamour of day.
100 years on;
their clamour of war
is now quiet as death
in our ears.
Yet our eyes open
to wars and rumours of wars
and a blindness
to history.
Poppies sound
their trumpet
calls
on silent meadows
and bowed
heads.
The fields have
moved on
with fruitful
harvests
and coloured
bloom.
The bowed heads
are filled with
shame
at the harvests
of blood
we reap daily.
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