Originally posted on Charmed Chaos: Remembrance, honor the brave who’ve fought and fallen red poppies bowing ©2018 Linda Lee Lyberg Author’s Note: Today, we honor the brave no longer among us who fought and gave their lives for freedom. May your Memorial Day be filled with fond and respectful memories. Frank J. Tassone Hakai Challenge…

Originally posted on Michael Rehling: i dont know why you were diverted stevie winwood is singing. someone says on facebook that i think i am superior to them. no i say. i ‘think’ you are an asshole. kinks in the origami goose too many tries at perfection

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: For Frank Tassone’s haikai challenge. Poppies are disappearing from European fields because of intensive farming methods and the ripping up of hedgerows. As we destroy our natural heritage, we destroy our collective memories too. ? years pass and smooth the furrowed field where no poppies bloom blood bone beneath…

Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo: Man, woman and child Earth remembers fields of blood Generations lost Flowers echo sacrifice Seeds of hope for tomorrow For Frank J. Tassone’s Haikai Challenge ?

Originally posted on Zander In Print: Love’s choice; sacrifice build us a grand monument that we may look there not into your eyes of hues varied as the children’s lives Z ? For Frank J. Tassone’s Challenge #35 “Memorial Day”

Originally posted on Roth Poetry: Each Memorial Day, when I was young, the large community cemetery behind our church filled with flags that waved across the sloping hillside. Volunteers from the VFW commemorate those soldiers who died in service to their country by placing a flag on each grave. I never saw any poppies growing…