Painted Poppies and Poesy

Poppies, like many flowers and herbs, are beneficial to the world of medicine, but poppies appeal to me because they are survivors and symbolise life, hope, and flexibility. The immense devastation on the battlefields in the northern region of Belgium in the 1st World War left 55,500 British soldiers, as well as tens of thousands of German, French, and Belgian troops, unaccounted for - their remains still buried in the Fields of Flanders. I penned the poem 'Poppies Remember', which […]

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