Form: Echo Sonnet
In Flanders fields the poppies stand and weep
It’s red petals vibrant within the gloom
Of war; for lives cut down before their bloom
Lest we forget in the silence we keep
The sacrifice that runs forever deep
For freedom our country saw its sons die
Torn down by guns that left mothers to cry
Lest we forget in the silence we keep
A few minutes silence is not so steep
To remember the cruelness that is war
And keeping this peace should be at our core
Lest we forget in the silence we keep
In Flanders fields the poppies stand and weep
Lest we forget in the silence we keep
©JGFarmer2020
A Garret Poet 