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Poppy Day
“If you see a poppy
And if it nods its head
Walk softly,
Go around it,
For it marks a soldier’s bed”
~ Anonymous
This year marks the 110th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, one of the bloodiest battles of the First World War, and a particularly poignant milestone in the history of remembrance.
Throughout the United Kingdom, the coming days will be marked by ceremonies, wreath-laying, moments of silence, and tributes to those who served and sacrificed. On Remembrance Sunday, November 8, the nation will gather in reflection, with the National Service of Remembrance at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, London. On Wednesday, November 11, Armistice Day, two minutes of silence at the eleventh hour will recall the moment the guns fell silent on the Western Front in 1918.
Over time, the remembrance poppy has acquired a rich language of symbolism, its colours offering different ways to honour sacrifice and service. The traditional red poppy commemorates those who died in war and remains the most familiar emblem of remembrance. The white poppy expresses remembrance of all victims of war and a commitment to peace, while the purple poppy pays tribute to the animals who served, suffered, and perished alongside their human companions.
The poppy also calls to mind the wounded who returned bearing visible and invisible scars, the families who endured unimaginable loss, and the countless young lives cut short—including boys who enlisted before they were old enough to serve.
From the battlefields of the Somme to the ceremonies of remembrance today, the poppy remains a quiet but enduring symbol of courage, sacrifice, grief, and hope.
Lest we forget. ❤️ 🖤 🤍 💚 💗 ❤️ 🌺 🎗️ 🙏
The beautiful poppy, often grown for its colourful flowers, has a long history of symbolic and medicinal use throughout history. In Greek and Roman mythology, poppies were used as offerings to the dead. Today, poppies are used as emblems on tombstones to symbolize eternal sleep or resurrection after death.
Poppy petals may be of almost any color and some have markings. In the temperate zones, poppies bloom from spring into early summer.The pollen of the oriental poppy, Papaver orientale, is dark blue, that of the field or corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) is grey to dark green.
Poppies have long been used as a symbol of sleep, peace, and death: Sleep because the opium extracted from them is a sedative, and death from the blood-red color of the red poppy. .
The poppy of wartime remembrance is Papaver rhoeas, the red-flowered corn poppy. This poppy is a common weed in Europe and is found in many locations, including Flanders, which is the setting of the famous poem "In Flanders Fields" by the Canadian surgeon and soldier John McCrae.
Following the trench warfare in the poppy fields of Flanders, Belgium during World War I, poppies have become a symbol of remembrance of soldiers who have died during wartime.
For more about the language of the poppy flower and its varied symbolism with respect to the war dead, click the poppies.