Among the Stones

I love the tranquility there is a peace like no other where hidden birds sing melodies and little creatures scurry and time stands still I like to read inscriptions on tombstones in the dappled sun or rain wet or snow covered gravestones monolith flagstones flat and small all the RIP inscriptions camera in hand and journal ready I note one stone's inscription it reads U N K N O W N this of all the stones among the rows and rows with no name, no date, no record no flowers ever I am sure no memorial of any kind this unknown stone has broken my heart . . . ____________________________ November 9, 2017(edit, April 21, 2020) Poetry/Free Verse/Among the Stones Copyright Protected, ID 20-1245-487-03 All Rights Reserved, 2020, Constance La France Submitted to Strand Pick B sponsor, Brian Strand Third Place