I can’t believe first snowfall for this year’s winter season is early. I’m afraid winter will be worst this year as predicted. I haven’t experience the knee-high snow as what they told us because last year wasn’t a heavy one. Plus the -50 degree Celsius weather... Oh, how I really hate the winter season.
Nonetheless, I love looking the snowfall ‘coz it brings magical feeling in me... Truly there is the so-called “winter wonderland”.
I saw my friend wearing poppy; I thought it was just decoration only to found out that it symbolizes something…
Poppies are worn during Remembrance Day, celebrated every 11th day of November. On that day, Canadian remember the members of the armed forces who have died in the line of duty since the First World War. The poppy flower became popular symbol for soldiers who died in battle after John McCrae’s poem “In Flanders Fields”.
In Flanders Fields
by John MsCrae
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
