Portsmouth Ferries

On another Blog I look after  I did a post about poppy day and remebering the fallen - I should realy have mentioned it on here as ther are many memorials to Soldiers sailors and Mechant Seamen who have lost their lives over the years.

This site has a list of the main memorials in portsmouth -

This is a poem written by a school girl that the Royal British Leigion used as part of this years remberance comemorations they have invited her to read her work in front of thousands of people gathered for ‘Silence in the Square’ a mass Two Minute Silence in Trafalgar Square on Saturday the 11th November).  

There Lie Forgotten Men

They lie there in their thousands

The last rays of sunlight

Catching the white of the gravestones

Lending a poignancy to the moment

Numbering in their thousands they lay

Deserving remembrance

And yet the scarred green fields are empty

Nothing remains here

The processions of people vanished with the years

Their sacrifice all but forgotten

 

 

She stands there alone

At the edge of the silent place

And she is shocked

New wars brew and these forgotten men

Will play no part in them

The dead silence warn no ears but hers

In great halls, in moments of great decision

What they fought for is forsaken

And by days end new gravestones

Appear on the blood red ground

 

She finds what she seeks

‘Sgt John Malley Age 27′

His life brutally ended

And she stands by his grave

But he can give no answers

And she weeps for him

For the empty hole he left behind

And for the new emptiness

Soon to join the black chasm.

And her tears join the flood.

 

Rebecca Sullivan