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Remembrance Day

Maple leaves and Poppies

By William Bedford ——--November 11, 2010

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Poppies still bloom in Flanders Fields though the guns no longer roar, children romp where carnage reigned in the war-torn days of yore.
To honour those who perished there, far from their northern home, row-on-row of maple leaves were fondly carved in stone. At the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month Canada remembers them.

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William Bedford——

CFP “Poet in Residence” William Bedford was born in Dublin, Ireland, but has lived in Toronto for most of his life.  His poems and articles have been published in many Canadian journals and in some American publications.

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