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image of my grandmother's antique Lane cedar chest

image from poetess' personal scrapbook

ANCESTRAL MURMURS

This poem is written in the Parallegram de Crystalline form:

cedar breath  
rising like spirit-wind  
wakens names sleeping beneath the grain

softly-latched  
quiet as moon-shadow  
closing veil between now and before

amber glow  
floating like olden prayers  
circling the chest in a soft halo

memories
wait in antiquity   
ancestral murmurs drift through soft light
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Wolf Avatar
June 11, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Unburied treasure. Lovely. ~ gw
Kendrick Avatar
June 10, 2026 at 4:56 PM
I enjoyed reading this one. Sara K.
Gauthier Avatar
June 10, 2026 at 8:19 AM
Delightful ~ antiques hold so many secrets they stubbornly refuse to divulge.
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