Remembrance Sunday

[kim & Tilly]

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[SIZE=14pt]You'll be with me[/SIZE]

 

Don’t weep for me my mother dear

My soul is strong and free.

Just pluck a poppy from the earth

That way, you'll be with me

 

Don’t wish that I were with you

It never was to be,

Just kiss that blood red poppy

That way, you'll be with me

 

You must believe the stories,

The terror I did see,

Just hold that poppy to your heart

That way, you'll be with me

 

The filth, the blood, the pestilence

The death, the agony,

Fell pride towards that poppy

That way, you'll be with me

 

Our deaths were not in vain, my love

Through us, you too are free,

So dance amoung the poppies

That way, you'll be with me

 

Clio Loxton

Age 12

This was a beatiful poem which was in the Rememberance programme I was given at the Bristol Colston Hall.

 

[hely]

oohhh lump in my throat now

thats lovely :huggles:

 

[littlenell]

:'( How touching. Ive got a lump in my throat too.

 

[trac]

thats a very touching poem :'(

 

[BlueNoise]

What a lovely poem, watery eyes now

 

[pepa]

loverly poem very touching

sue

 

[Trish]

wonderful words by someone so young :thumbsup:

thanks for putting it on here kim :thumbsup:

 

[Carol Jepson]

Thats a lovely poem My son Lucas has always said he's wanted to go into the Royal Marines, he's 13 and is marching this Sunday with the cadets :huggles: We are going to the cenataph to watch him and I will be sooooooo proud of him :huggles:

 

[Jazzys dad]

We should never forget this date.

Nor should we ever forget what these brave guys & girls are doing right now , this second, trying to avoid shite, in Iraq, Afghanistan, Darfur and possibly many other global hotspots that they are sent to -

If you want to think about it , listen to this , cos it makes me weep every time.

you have to go to bottom of page and look at the blue link to the fureys and listen to the words.

It's in my favourites, as it is too precious song to forget.

http://www.aftermathww1.com/mcbride.asp

 

[kim & Tilly]

We should never forget this date.

Nor should we ever forget what these brave guys & girls are doing right now , this second, trying to avoid shite, in Iraq, Afghanistan, Darfur and possibly many other global hotspots that they are sent to -

If you want to think about it , listen to this , cos it makes me weep every time.

you have to go to bottom of page and look at the blue link to the fureys and listen to the words.

It's in my favourites, as it is too  precious song to forget.

http://www.aftermathww1.com/mcbride.asp

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So true, my daughter is just starting her trade training in the army and loving every moment, but i am hoping for peace before she has finished so she doesnt have to go to war

Love to those who have family fighting for us now xxx

 

[kim & Tilly]

bump xx

 

[Strike Whippets]

Lovely poem ....Sad thing is that do you know what .....We have had no one selling Poppy's at our door, no Poppy's at our local shops etc ....As a matter of fact I haven't been able to buy a Poppy ANYWHERE

 

[dawn]

We should never forget this date.

Nor should we ever forget what these brave guys & girls are doing right now , this second, trying to avoid shite, in Iraq, Afghanistan, Darfur and possibly many other global hotspots that they are sent to -

If you want to think about it , listen to this , cos it makes me weep every time.

you have to go to bottom of page and look at the blue link to the fureys and listen to the words.

It's in my favourites, as it is too  precious song to forget.

http://www.aftermathww1.com/mcbride.asp

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That is probably the best version of that song - such sadness - 1st heard it in the Spa theatre in Scarborough and couldn't move (literally)

A similarly themed song is And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda particularly June Tabor's version -- I also greatly enjoy June's version of No Man's Land/Flowers of the Forest which is essentially the same song as The Furey's and almost as wonderful.

Also listen to

but it is not an easy listen.

Please Do Not Forget 11 11 11 .

Richard

 

[quintessence]

For The Fallen

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,

England mourns for her dead across the sea.

Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,

Fallen in the cause of the free.

Solemn the drums thrill: Death august and royal

Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres.

There is a music in the midst of desolation

And a glory that shines upon our tears.

They went with songs to the battle, they were young,

Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.

They were staunch to the end against odds uncountered:

They fell with their faces to the foe.

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.

They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;

They sit no more at familiar tables at home;

They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;

They sleep beyond England's foam.

But where our desires are and our hopes profound,

Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,

To the innermost heart of their own land they are known

As the stars are known to the Night;

As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,

Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain;

As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,

To the end, to the end they remain.

-- Laurence Binyon