ACTION REPLAY

Silence. Silence. Heads bowed low. Poppies. Poppies. Row on row. Scarlet petals, slender stem. ‘Remember them, remember them.’ Toll the bells from coast to coast, Muffle drums and sound the Post. Accolades and honours due To the brave, the best, the few. Who, though unseen now, also stand Comrades all, in no man’s land. In Tommy’s boots and pilot’s fleece Those who gave their lives for peace, Guarding earth and seas and skies Weep, to witness Hope’s demise, Allowing heroes’ tears to flow Upon those poppies strewn below, Where bombs explode and cities burn As humankind declines to learn. Tricia Sturgeon, Mundesley, Norfolk.