Notes About The Poem
For Gate or Gates poetry contest Sponsored by Constance LA France
Use the following words:
1. ghostly
2. gossamer
3. grave
4. godforsaken
5. grief-stricken
6. groaning
Gate to our Eternity
"Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity."
--Khalil Gibran
She returns here every May sixteenth,
the day she was to marry.
I saw her GHOSTLY visage there
at the GATES of the cemetery.
I went, as I've done everyday,
to lay flowers upon her GRAVE.
I, the GRIEF-STRICKEN groom
just striving to be brave.
Just as the sun set and darkness fell
I heard a ghastly GROANING.
I ran to where the sound had been
from a tomb I heard her moaning.
Just by the rusted, wrought iron gate
stood a GODFORSAKEN soul
in gown of white GOSSAMER and grave dirt.
My weak heart beat out of control.
Then suddenly a flash of light,
and she was as she had been.
I was in my good white suit...
they must have buried me in.
Together, hand in hand again
we finally got to marry!
Then we entered our eternity
through the gates of the cemetery.
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