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Veteran’s Day

November 11, 2010 at 10:42 am · Filed under Autumn, Flowers, Haiku, Holidays, Human Affairs (Jinji), Life and Death, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Time of Year and tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

“We were soldiers once”:
Purple-hearted red poppies
Nod and bow their heads.

The first line is from A. E. Housman, “More Poems,” poem 36.

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