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Poppy Day
“If you see a poppy
And if it nods its head
Walk softly,
Go around it,
For it marks a soldier’s bed”
~ Anonymous
Over time, the symbolic poppy has evolved into a moving language of colors and patterns that honor the diversity of sacrifice and service. The traditional blood-red poppy with a black cross at its heart represents those soldiers, sailors, and airmen who died in battle. A red poppy with a partial black cross signifies a soldier wounded in action, while a single petal adorned with a quarter black cross honors the “walking wounded” who endured and returned.
Amidst a field of red, a white poppy or a red poppy touched with pale streaks serves as a tribute to the young boys who misrepresented their age to enlist, driven by patriotism beyond their years. Gentle pink or purple poppies are a reverent remembrance of the animals who suffered and perished alongside their human companions. Poppies with six or more black marks around their centers stand as poignant reminders of the many brothers who served and sacrificed together.
Lest we forget. ❤️ 🖤 🤍 💚 💗 ❤️ 🌺 🎗️ 🙏
The beautiful poppy, often grown for its colourful flowers, has a long history of symbolic and medicinal use throughout history. In Greek and Roman mythology, poppies were used as offerings to the dead. Today, poppies are used as emblems on tombstones to symbolize eternal sleep or resurrection after death.
Poppy petals may be of almost any color and some have markings. In the temperate zones, poppies bloom from spring into early summer.The pollen of the oriental poppy, Papaver orientale, is dark blue, that of the field or corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) is grey to dark green.
Poppies have long been used as a symbol of sleep, peace, and death: Sleep because the opium extracted from them is a sedative, and death from the blood-red color of the red poppy. .
The poppy of wartime remembrance is Papaver rhoeas, the red-flowered corn poppy. This poppy is a common weed in Europe and is found in many locations, including Flanders, which is the setting of the famous poem "In Flanders Fields" by the Canadian surgeon and soldier John McCrae.
Following the trench warfare in the poppy fields of Flanders, Belgium during World War I, poppies have become a symbol of remembrance of soldiers who have died during wartime.
For more about the language of the poppy flower and its varied symbolism with respect to the war dead, click the poppies.