11 November 2025

Poppy Petals

Leaf 206 – Remembrance

 

Dmitry Levin - Forest Poppies


There’s something intensely poignant in the forlorn fragility, but also the sheer tenacity and profound resilience, of the poppy which is very moving. See also, Leaf 118 and Leaf 204.

 

 

Poppy petals

bruised

by the rain.

 

 

 

 This poem was originally written and posted on Bluesky in response to a writing prompt by Wales Haiku Journal: 'poppy/poppies.'