Best Centenary Poems

Waving poppies, ruffled by the summer breeze, look up 
At the deep sky and warm sun, pillows of clouds gentle 
Contrast to the green below and the scattered red faces 
With soul black eyes. Children’s voices ring like distant bells, 
The sounds of happiness and...

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A hundred year is gone,
Suspence still fill the air.
Truly, the signs are with us.
About an exodus?
But no, not a plague of locust,
It's a plague of men.
The people are the disaster
Since naturally we have none.
Arise O compatroits.
To serve our fatherland
What has happened to the song we...

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Centenary 
100 years since that war and the mighty are dressed
in their fine uniforms and holding hollow speeches.
For some the strutting about is triumphalism, but we 
cannot say so, but the British and French feel smug.
The rusty/ gold prince is there too and his underlings
have...

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The Centenary of Remembrance

The ranks of sunflowers follow the contours 
Of the vale, marching across to the ridge in 
The distance. Roots reach down into the
Rich soil, feeding greedily on the memories 
Beneath.

Yellow faces turn and follow the sun as it
Arcs across the sky, warming...

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