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Created on: August 04, 2011
Moonlight splashed across a lonely hill.
Headstones scattered abroad,
like jagged teeth.
Dead trees,
with twisted fingers,
reaching to a cloudless sky.
Whispers of ancient deeds,
long forgotten.
Tales of tragedies,
and what could have been.
The raven rested,
atop a silhouetted monument.
Diligently watching,
and secretly knowing,
without telling.
A gently breeze,
ruffles feathers,
and carries the moans
of tortured souls.
Sentenced to eternity,
either good or bad,
awaiting their sentence.
Visitors infrequent.
Time heals too fast,
the dead are lonely.
Broken hearts,
with too much time to think.
Just another graveyard,
but the scenario is the same.
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Poetry: Graveyards
by Helen Estlin
THE GRAVEYARD BY THE SEA
The winds of autumn stir the nodding trees
that guard the graveyard by the sea;
and so disturbed,
Graveyards
Gardens of memories
Fields of stone
Perpetual monuments
weeds overgrown
Elaborate tombs
Like silent museums
Acres
Old folks and the young all gather here to rest
Calm, still, peaceful, grasses whisper in a breeze
Songs birds serenade all
The wind blows through the headstone and ruffles my hair
but I let it because it's like your touching me.
You with your phantom
Open your eyes to what can be seen
the artistry and all it gleam
Hard intense works will surface
of marble stones carved
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