Remembrance Day
Maple leaves and Poppies
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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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.
