Le Voyage Magnifique

Poppies

Poppies pollinate
here to consecrate
the lives lost across the sea.
Their families mourn
with the poppies worn
to symbolize bravery.

Because heroes' blood
mingled with the mud,
poppies bloom in Normandy.
They blanket the land
where men died in sand
to preserve their memory.

Notes on the Alouette form of poetry ▼

The Alouette is a poem of two or more six-line stanzas devised by Jan Turner. The syllable structure for each stanza is 5, 5, 7, 5, 5, 7, and the rhyme scheme is aabccb, as described and demonstrated in the following links:

http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/alouette.html

http://www.rainbowcommunications.org/velvet/forms/Alouette.pdf .