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Vietnam War Poetry
Back to Flanders Field
by Jackie Kays
DN, 23rd ABG/APS; 6252nd APS
War-Stories LM 14
VSPA LM 366
© Copyright 2007
 
 

 


Back to Flanders Field

Can you still feel it?
Can you still smell it?
Can you still remember it?

The monsoon rains!
The aroma of the black bags!
The nightmares,
after all those years!

Fifty Eight Thousand!
Oh! Where have they all gone?
Gone to join in the glory of the
poppies that will forever grow in…
Flanders Fields.