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Contest-Cemetery

Sponsor- Constance La France

Cemetery Of My Youth

Wooden crosses weeping their peeling paint
    broken and fractured by time
Stood like remnants of carnage from a civil war
signposts of man's ugliness from within
Silent in death, guardians of their cause
left in the farthest corner of a small cemetery
    that held no importance
even to the church that owned it
Who used goats to graze the wild grasses
    It was profoundly sad 
to the eyes of a young boy who looked and wondered
    About this cemetery 
of etched, buried marble and wooden crosses
   that moved with the wind
Someone should have laid flowers
Perhaps it's age, the crumbling crosses
Maybe... no one was alive who cared for this sacred ground
    Not even the church
Copyright © | Year Posted 2025

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May 27, 2025 at 11:44 AM
- Abandoned and forgotten... a sad sight in a cemetery, Frederic :) - Conservation period for a tombstone place, is valid for 20 years here in Norway ... after that it can be deleted and reused - Family can purchase multiple years if desired - Best wishes in the contest :) - hugs
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