Lest we forget - A Bridge, a Poem and links - Remembrance Day 2010.

Just a quick post to honour those who have fallen in the wars. I thought I'd share a photo of the Storey Bridge (William Jolly Bridge) in Brisbane, which is alight with poppies on Remembrance Day (er, night.)

A lovely display to honour the fallen.

And here's another...

And my favourite Remembrance Day poem -

Break of Day in the Trenches

The darkness crumbles away

It is the same old druid Time as ever,

Only a live thing leaps my hand,

A queer sardonic rat,

As I pull the parapet's poppy

To stick behind my ear.

Droll rat, they would shoot you if they knew

Your cosmopolitan sympathies,

Now you have touched this English hand

You will do the same to a German

Soon, no doubt, if it be your pleasure

To cross the sleeping green between.

It seems you inwardly grin as you pass

Strong eyes, fine limbs, haughty athletes,

Less chanced than you for life,

Bonds to the whims of murder,

Sprawled in the bowels of the earth,

The torn fields of France.

What do you see in our eyes

At the shrieking iron and flame

Hurled through still heavens?

What quaver -what heart aghast?

Poppies whose roots are in men's veins

Drop, and are ever dropping;

But mine in my ear is safe,

Just a little white with the dust.

by

Isaac Rosenberg1890-1918, written in 1916

Another Remembrance Day post here - Genie
And here - Donna
And here - Sciencemuller
And here - Fragile mouse
And here - cheekyness
And here - clark
And here - Abby
And here - tinalynnsandoval
And here - Elspeth
And here - Simon
And here - Jan
And here - The Literary Project

There's probably heaps more. Let me know. Next year we'll have to have a Vereran's Blogfest.