In Flanders Fields
The poppies grow in between the crosses that mark the soldiers’ posthumous place in the sky. The larks fly scarcely heard when guns fire on the land below.
They are the recent dead and now lie In Flanders Fields.
Take your quarrel up with the foe. We unhand the torch for you to hold. Those who break allegiance with the recent dead will now know that there are others holding the torch, keeping the fire - faith alive. For the soldiers who now lie in Flanders Fields are live on: through the new torch holders and where poppies now grow.

The Anxious Dead
Guns are always silent because they’re never firing until the dead comrade hears the legions pressing on knowing not the outcome but the oath sworn to carry on.
Despite anticipating dawn, war will wage on for the dead comrades and against the polarized general.
The soldiers promise the dead comrades to their guns that they will keep the faith alive.
When the silence of victory arrives, the dead comrades anticipate vast silence and greet the dawn and turn to their sleep.

The Warrior
This is about the disfavored diverse reader of In Flanders Fields keeping the flame of fealty alive hearing the boom of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher’s gun, looking up at HMS Birkenhead’s tall spars and observed at Abu Qir in Egypt, how dead men lay.

Isandlwana
This is about the separation a mother has from her son enrolled in the British Armed Forces, deployed to the battlefield. It ends with her sat under a tree where he is buried under or nearby remarking the jackals crying and her as well in Brecon Town.

The Unconquered Dead
The unconquered dead are not to be shouted about in victory. For the British in their trench upon the hill, where scattered shells seam the ground, it’s still theirs. The living soldiers might have yielded but death came for their helpers or comrades. Death falling upon the soldiers is described and the roars of persistent life dwindle down to what is ignored or in one’s conscious. The British are not the conquered, to shame and have earthen barriers that don’t cease to acknoeldge the fierce moment that the British rose to action to defend their fealty and beliefs concluding with their honored peace.

The Captain
The Captain’s opening is about a naval vessel as the rusted chain she tugs all night long is the anchor. A Vanguard by definition is a leader or pioneer but in this poem it refers to the naval vessel’s commanding leading journey.

Song of the Derelict
This is a poem to the sea. He asleep at night on a naval vessel and is overcome by the vastness of the night when at once he sees a figure, a call to attention and a light. The sea overcame this naval vessel comparing the vessel to a fig against the sea. His comrades are dead at peace with the victory the sea had against the navel vessel voyaging them through until their defeat against the sea.

Quebec
The old like Helen have a claim to have been strong for having lived long years of life. There are other similar comparisons but overall in her old age, can she look at dead British soldiers with regret?

This questions how what many believe to be favorable, living to an old age can’t possibly be regrettable given the sacrifice British soldier paid with their lives in youth, health in youth and strength in youth. etc.

Then and Now
This is about the moon and a deceased affair? or the late Queen Elizabeth II with the innuendo being the lilac-laden as lilac is a shade of purple, Birthstones are to be bought for a number of reasons. Amethyst is perfect for black customers because Black History Month is February and Amethyst is the birthstone of such a month. This was also appropriate for the late Queen Elizabeth II as she stood in lack of support against the racism the americans have against black men and is the same reason for the americans fighting against the British for their independence.

When he weeps. The breeze, the sign of her physical absence or of her invisible presence commands attention for the old years when she was physically present but never happens when his heart is too glad for tears.

Unsolved
This could be about a gay man faking death and about an ingenuine hetero feelings for reasons to throw off the loved ones living, having the task of loving or sleeping with women.

It could be about Jesus post-resurrection seeing his tomb? and having to appear to a woman.

The Hope of my Heart
What comes before light? Will, thoughts and statements. To understand this one has to recall their knowledge of the creation story in the Bible and think about what came before God the Father’s spoken statement of “Let there be light”.

This is about a deceased soldier who left to the Earth his maiden with locks of gold and eyes that put the light to shame and how he wants to spend the after-life with her.

Penance
This is about how in the after-life because of slanderous words against a lover, this soldier’s after-life full of dreams isn’t peaceful as much as a living man who in a relationship who could sleep at night.

Slumber Songs
To a child - Sleep for no grief of night could outweigh the coming day
To those reading - For most slumberland doesn’t have tears. When deceased, life in others will bring chilling fears to the after-life. Sleep little heart.
To the author - His youth’s eyes are dead blossoms of a springtime long ago, that life’s storm crushed and left to lie beneath the benediction of the snow otherwise known as the springtime. Therefore when one dies, they don’t return as nature’s seasons cycle.
To the author - In the afterlife, one goes through years with silent feet but don’t know that rest is sweet

The Oldest Drama
War and generations of soldiers in a family is the oldest drama. This is about coping with grief of the loss of a spouse or son to war.

Recompense
This is about Adam and Even and being tempted by the serpent to eat of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil.

Reaping the harvest has its benefits other than rest like nourishment earned. For having sowed and toiled, God meteth to him more because the other reaped his own and the other’s wheat?

Mine Host
Death is where a multitude of men lie but can’t speak and only have rest.

Equality

Anarchy
God is King. There are polarizing parts to this poem. On one side we have those who speak boldly for the cause of right, who pray and speak of God. On the polarized end of the spectrum, there are those who are of a brutish race, brut dishonor, smite others, who in reply call themselves Kings. God hearing this cast a thousand leagues of the sea.

Disarmament
The US vs. The UK. The US - Let’s cease from darkening the FAIR world’s light. Let’s no longer please the cause by force.

The British voices of their dead state to lay by your sword, it’s work and ours is done.

The Dead Master
Every day of life, you can be a hero

The Harvest of the Sea
Snow. When it snows, the reapers are bringing home their golden sheaves.

At Sea, men think about the loved one’s their heart aches? to be reunited with

The Dying of Pere Pierre
Church Architecture
The burial site of the Apostle Peter

Eventide
God gives peace to everyone through the eventide even those who toil and look for the sunset in the West

Upon Watts’ Picture “Sic Transit”
What Jesus thought on the cross

Song of Comfort
Reflections at the end of life for one who sacrificed their’s for others otherwise British soldiers

The Pilgrims
Discovery of the West and finding death finding the West

The Shadow of the Cross
Reflecting about Jesus dying on the cross

The Night Cometh
Night falls on everyone

In Due Season
About life and whether or not one’s is purposeful