L'aura del Campo

Red poppies blow

Red poppies blow

I pen a poem
predicting war
while poor children
pocket pastries.
Am I prescient.
Am I wrong.

© Kåre Enga (3.january.2020)

5/4/4/4/4/3 = 24 syllable

Free verse not dependent on rhyme or rhythm. Kept together by alliteration. The line breaks can be a pause while reading out-loud.

24 syllable

Prompt is prescient: having or showing knowledge of events before they take place.

Title from:

"In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place, and in the sky,
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard among the guns below."

John McCrae