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# Flowers In No Man's Land
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/flowers-in-no-mans-land/
- Published: 2022-04-13T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-04-13T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: awash in sharp, resplendent colors the flowers grow on No Man's Land defying the most ardent scholars those seek, in vain, to understand the shrapnel from misfired missiles had long since sullied the good earth no sem...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

awash in sharp, resplendent colors  
the flowers grow on No Man's Land  
defying the most ardent scholars  
those seek, in vain, to understand  
the shrapnel from misfired missiles  
had long since sullied the good earth  
no semblance of a rose or thistle  
no one to plant a virgin birth  
and yet they grow, a splash of happy  
a limbo, in between two hells  
red, crimson blood, a field of poppies  
right next to unexploded shells