In mid-May, you will find old men with flowers in their hands, red paper poppies, offered in exchange for pennies. The poppies are made by men and women who have been disabled by war, veterans who ...

This poem by the Nobel laureate is a fierce short parable about environmental devastation The Red Poppy The great thing is not having a mind. Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me. I have a lord ...

These are the heartfelt words of a man who is “passionate” that we must never forget our fallen heroes. They come from I Am Not a Badge of Honour, a Remembrance poem penned in just five minutes by ...

Stephen Osborne has written about poppies and remembrance in Geist and Saturday Night, where some of the ideas expressed here first took shape. He is the editor of Geist, whose website is here.

Again, poppy flowers are weeds, technically, so it’s not uncommon to find them in fields out in the wild. But that’s also why they symbolize rebirth and resilience; they don’t die quickly and pretty ...

“In Flanders Fields the poppies blow, between the crosses row on row...” begins the poem “In Flanders Fields.” Written by a Canadian physician, Lt. Col. John McCrae, it was composed on May 3, 1915, ...

Wild poppies grow in the 'Trench of Death', a preserved World War I trench system in Diksmuide, Belgium. July 31. (Jack Taylor/Getty Images) It is perhaps the most famous poem to come out of the Great ...

One hundred years after the United States entered World War I, the red poppy still symbolizes the sacrifices made by soldiers in the fight against Germany. Millions of people in countries including ...

[Editor's note: This essay by Stephen Osborne, editor-in-chief at Geist magazine, signals the start of a new collaboration between The Tyee and Geist -- two leading independent voices in B.C. Watch ...

This poem by the Nobel laureate is a fierce short parable about environmental devastation The Red Poppy The great thing is not having a mind. Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me. I have a lord ...