One Stop Poetry Picture Prompt Challenge.

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 Thanks to Walter Parada for letting us use this picture for inspiration this week.

Do you claim victory?

Or is that scarlet flag

you wave so openly

just a blood-dripping rag,

acknowledging the need

for the fighting to cease

as dying soldiers bleed

to fertilise the peace?

Who claims the glory here?

Do you appeal for praise?

Or triumph with the fear

from all the dreams you raze?

Who wins when all have lost?

What price the victor’s reign

when set against the cost

of battle’s sanguine drain