Grandfather's Medals
from the Great War glimmer
in the wooden box, their
rainbowed ribbons drooping
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over the wooden barricades,
gewgaws not given for heroism,
just for having served and survived,
his brass Lancs Fusiliers cap badge
with a Sphinx with cat-wafting tail,
symbolic of another war, another place.
Christopher T. George
Lancashire Fusiliers Cap Badge
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