The Last Post

“The Last Post” by Rob Holt



A German Broom in Bugloss fields -

A Burning Bush with a red sea of salad. 


As false winds Foxtail, Crowfoot wallows in mud

And Lords and Ladies cross in zig-zag trenches. 


Jack-by-the-Hedge peeps out at the Black Horehound,

While Cats Ears listen for Creeping Gromwell. 


A Bugle announces that Greater Burdock has won the Kingcup. 


Scentless Gypsy Weed weaves through the Soldiers-and-Sailors

To the Heather-clad mountain of Jack-in-the-Pulpit. 


Hearts Ease as dead souls whisper “Forget-Me-Not.”

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