"Where the poppies grow" for the Short Affair Challenge.

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Challenge: The Short Affair

-Prompt Word 1 - Vivid

-Prompt Colour – Blue

Author: mrua7

Title: Where the poppies grow

Word Count: 700

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Comments

[jantojones.livejournal.com]

Wow! Such an evocative scene. I could feel the strange tranquility of it, and could almost hear the terrible silences which followed the battles of Flanders Field (even though i have no first hand knowledge of it). Does that make any sense?

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It makes sense and I get what you're saying. I'm not that familiar with WWI either.

Flanders was the site of 5 WWI battles. The fields were unmaintained for years before they were made into a memorial. Today Flanders Fields is apparently home to tens of thousands of poppies.

The site became American Cemetery and Memorial, a World War I cemetery on the southeast edge of the town of Waregem, Belgium. Poppy flowers began to grow after the burial of the fallen soldiers.

Amazing...

[pfrye.livejournal.com]

Very good

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much. Not really sure where the inspiration for this came from. Just my muse leading me down paths unknown I suppose.

[gevr.livejournal.com]

this is very good. I love the use of the poem here !

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Thank you so very much! To me the piece was odd how it evolved as I wrote it. I didn't start out with anything in mind and just went where my muse took me.