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Grave Thoughts

The graveyard's vast, the grass was high. I picked my way amongst the graves and thought, Like these, I'll some day die. I scanned the rows of headstones there - it looked as though no one came near; I'd come to show at least I care. So many stones, the names now gone, anonymous, forgotten, lost... So can it be the soul lives on? written 12th October for Constance's Tercet contest: Death

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Date: 11/3/2020 2:14:00 PM
Dropping back to say many congrats on your win Jack:-) hugs Jan xx
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Date: 11/3/2020 1:17:00 PM
yes, they DO live on. I love this, Jack. It's so deep, and different from your usual funny poetry, which I also adore. Congrats. A FAVE
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Date: 11/1/2020 7:40:00 AM
Jack, congratulations on your win in my Tercet Challenge with this excellent write, a FAV for me _Constance
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Date: 11/1/2020 12:05:00 AM
Congratulations on your win, Jack. Hugs Eve
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Date: 10/31/2020 2:28:00 PM
Congratulations, Jack, on your win for this piece with vivid imagery!!
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Date: 10/31/2020 12:03:00 PM
Congratulations on your win. :-) I live to walk through graveyards and read the tomb stones.
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Date: 10/31/2020 11:56:00 AM
Provocative Jack. Congratulations on the win! Linda
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Date: 10/31/2020 11:23:00 AM
- Congratulations on your win in the contest, Jack :) - hugs // Anne-Lise :)
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Date: 10/31/2020 10:36:00 AM
Congratulations on your win!
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Date: 10/18/2020 6:45:00 AM
ABSOLUTELY, I BELIEVE THE SOUL LEAVES A BODY THE MOMENT THAT PERSON DIES, PERHAPS HERE ON EARTH HE WAS NOT KNOWN, BUT GOD KNOWS HIS SOUL AND HAS A SPOT JUST FOR HIM OR HER IN HIS PARADISE. i LOVE YOUR DEEP THINKING MY FRIEND, CLEVER WRITE. HUGS AND BLESSINGS, JENNIFER
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Date: 10/12/2020 11:13:00 AM
Wow, I love the chilling story behind this poem. I have the same feelings you described here when I walk through a cemetery. Who lived here? How did they die? etc. I think the hairs on my arms were standing up when I finished reading this. A stellar entry for Constance's contest! Hugs, carolyn
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Date: 10/12/2020 8:38:00 AM
A dark delivery, Jack. Eventually both must have felt the benefit of release. ~ Regards // pau
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Date: 10/12/2020 6:28:00 AM
, very vivid imagery, bravo Jack I am more used to your humour but you write dark so well:-) hugs jan xx
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Date: 10/12/2020 6:16:00 AM
Creative work. Way to go for the contest. Reads like a good contender to me. I have read or heard this theme in some movies, books and poems but a little different use of the idea. Thanks for stopping by all my pages. Sara
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