in response to Paul Cummins Installation currently at Tower of London

A mighty Shard of steel and glass

splinters heavy skies of grey

pierces rainclouds full of mournful tears

on this centenary Remembrance Day

Summers' English roses

long faded and with bowed and shrivelled head

face towards the Tower

with its 'Bloodswept land and seas of red'

Eight hundred thousand Commonwealth lives

(a poppy for each) to attention stands

filling and devouring the Towers

'green and pleasant land'

So on this centenary Remembrance Day

we can see each of the 'Glorious Dead'

and remember the lives given and lost for this

'Bloodswept land and seas of red'

by Louise Page 

5th October 2014