Unflappable
Triple-stripped heart
Waving, in the chill
Of a flame-brittle breeze:
France’s bleeding colours
An ache of vital keys:
Red to rinse out ruin
Of spilled tyranny;
Blue to blot the blare
Of wild ideology;
White to light
This flagging warmth
Of wounded
Humanity.
Richard G Berg
November 2015
Dec 24, 2015
Dec 24, 2015 at 4:05 PM UTC
Unflappable
Triple-stripped heart
Waving, in the chill
Of a flame-brittle breeze:
France’s bleeding colours
An ache of vital keys:
Red to rinse out ruin
Of spilled tyranny;
Blue to blot the blare
Of wild ideology;
White to light
This flagging warmth
Of wounded
Humanity.
Richard G Berg
November 2015
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