蜜芽传媒

A field of poppies is now a rare sight as farming has changed the flower's fortunes. The poppy is a beautiful silk-like flower, warming the wind like a blown ruby and magically appearing when the land was ploughed. Superstition once held that picking poppies would cause thunderstorms at an edgy time of year. How ironic then that the fields of the Somme should have exploded with poppies just months after the carnage of 1916. It is now the most poignant symbol of memory and war that we have. It is sad that modem agriculture has almost wiped out the splendour of poppy fields.