Grandfather's Medals
from the Great War glimmer
in the wooden box, their
rainbowed ribbons drooping
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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