poppies

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1. Reminds me of Monet's style of art.

Keep in mind that there's something wrong with my computer's backlight.

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7. Poppy Field at Argenteuil ---

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8. Now that's what I'm talking about.

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2. I'm already feeling sle...

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4. Sorry, no snow

Glenda can't save you now!

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3. Reminds me of The Wizard Of Oz

The wicked witch used them to drug Dorothy and friends while on their way to The Emerald City.

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5. Gorgeous.

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6. Boy that movie just took OVER the field o' poppy image didn't it? But SO gorgeous!

Of course all I can hear in my head is "You're outta the woods/You're outta the dark/You're outta the night...."

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9. In Flanders Field

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

Composed at the battlefront on May 3, 1915
during the second battle of Ypres, Belgium

(Poppy seeds can lie dormant for years, until the soil is disturbed, so after battles, they would often bloom. This is why they are used on Veterans Remembrance Day, at least that is what my Dad told me)

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10. I love that poem

I wish I had thought to use it in my subject line. As I recall, the author died in the war.

thanks for posting it