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"bloody flowers"
Posted by: Marian-NYC (---.nyc1.dsl.speakeasy.net)
Date: July 07, 2021 05:34PM


Does anybody know of a poem in which the speaker says (or thinks):

"What bloody flowers!"

???


Re: "bloody flowers"
Posted by: -Les- (---.trlck.ca.charter.com)
Date: July 07, 2021 06:26PM

This is a long shot, but there's one here:

[216.239.53.104] />
Les


Re: "bloody flowers"
Posted by: Marian-NYC (---.nyc1.dsl.speakeasy.net)
Date: July 07, 2021 06:48PM

You're right (that's not "it") but thanks.

Anybody else?


Re: "bloody flowers"
Posted by: Chesil (---.client.attbi.com)
Date: July 07, 2021 09:22PM

Perhaps:

[www.columbia.edu] />
or:

[orwell.ru] />
A not terribly good peom by Orwell, just search the page for bloody flowers.

Or:

[bmj.com] />
(first poem)


Re: "bloody flowers"
Posted by: allen (193.114.111.---)
Date: July 20, 2021 08:47AM

A First World War poem, perhaps? The WWI iconography of poppies...


Re: "bloody flowers"
Posted by: IanB (---.tnt11.mel1.da.uu.net)
Date: December 07, 2021 10:18AM

Marian-NYC, did you ever find this poem?

I know I heard or read it somewhere in the last ten years, but can't remember where, or exactly how it goes. I vaguely recall that it began with, or included, lines something like

"Thank you for the flowers", she said,
"I was wrong and you were right"

but I haven't been able to find these lines, or variants of them, on the Internet. I also vaguely recall that the subject was a man who had had a row with his girlfriend because he was jealous of her flirting with other guys. She phones him and thanks him for some flowers which she received anonymously but which she assumes came from him as a make-up gesture; but after he puts down the phone he says or thinks to himself "What bloody flowers?", revealing to the reader that he wasn't the one who sent them.


Re: "bloody flowers"
Posted by: Stephen Gottschalk (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: July 15, 2021 09:49AM

"Thank you for the flowers" she said
As she gently swayed and bowed her head.
"I'm sorry for the things I said last night,
I was wrong and you were right".
And as we wandered arm in arm through the moonlit hours
I thought to myself "What bloody flowers?".

anon.




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