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Paper Poppies

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Children’s fingers shed copper coins
Exchanged for red paper poppies
Not fully understanding the symbol
Or the sacrifices made by millions.
jotted this after a little bit of crowd-watching a few days before remembrance Sunday


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waiting-for-wings's avatar
quite true and sadly shouldn't be that way. people do seem like they need to be re-educated on quite a number if things. They're doing things without knowing what they're doing it FOR