Harvest of the Brave

image by Musin Yohan

Linking with Poetry Jam for Mary's prompt "Harvest Time"

Our battle-fields, safe in the keeping
Of Nature's kind, fostering care,
Are blooming, - our heroes are sleeping, -
And peace broods perennial there.
~John H. Jewett

We gather our fallen like crop in the field and then set them up in rows.

Those that bore the burden of fighting freedom's greatest foes.

They stood among the strongest and brave upon the land

and gave the greatest sacrifice for liberty of fellow man.

 

An offering of plenty that no civilian can give back

providing for generations the rights that only heroes grant.

 

 Now we reap the benefit of the harvest of the brave

so let us give the offering reverence and live a life that's great.