They left these quiet fields ...

They left these quiet fields -

They left the memory of their young beauty in the water meadows - 

I can read their names - 

Walter Cobb -

Richard Cobb -

Ralph Twisden Butler -

Amar Somerset Twisden -

Twelve other names - 

They'd walked where I walk - 

Their shadows touch mine - 

They watch the minnows in the shallows of the river - 

Buttercups are wreathed around their bones - 

Monday 9 November 2020

East Stoke 

Dorset