the flowers are prettiest in no man’s Land
untrampled by tank threads
weeded by shrapnel falling off its mark
fertilized by the each charge,
a splash of color, a garden of Eden betwixt two graveyards
enough flowers for everyone in those graves
Author notes: Image by Joshua_Willson from Pixabay https://allpoetry.com/contest/2784368-Surreal-images-55
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