The Falling Leaves is a poem written by Margaret Postgate-Cole (1893–1980) in November 1915 about World War I.
The leaves represent soldiers on the battlefield[2] who are left to rot, forgotten and lost forever.
The Flemish clay is the Belgian soil where the fighting took place.
This poem is included in the AQA GCSE Poetry Anthology "Moon on the Tides" for 2010 and 2011.
It was also included in the OCR GCSE Poetry Anthology "Opening Lines" in the 1914-1918 WAR (ii), for 2006 to 2011.