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POPPIES

Story ID:1271
Written by:Veronica Breen Hogle
Organization:Irish Cultural Events
Story type:Poem
Location:Bagenalstown County Carlow Ireland
Year:2006
Person:Eileen nee Earls Breen
POPPIES

Poem 3 of 21

By the late Eileen Breen
March 27, 1916 - May 5, 2006
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Blood red poppies
on Flanders Fields
falling gently
like a mother’s tears
as Rachel like she cries
poppy drugged
he sleeps
in death’s last dream
a trip from womb to tomb
took twenty summers.
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