TYNE COT

when you left
for the front
you were
living heroes
and now
you're on top
of the hill
where only
poppies
blow.........

©Copyright 2004 by Jan Theuninck

Author’s Note: My poessay, Tyne Cot, has been put on the cortensteel wall of the new library in Zonnebeke, Belgium, the village where I was born. This cortensteel construction is located in the Park where the Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917 is situated. The museum tells the story of one of the bloodiest battles of WW1, the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917.

Jan Theuninck stands outside the newly constructed Library in Zonnebeke, Belgium
March 2008