Old Cemetery

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Written, October 23, 2024
For the International Contest, I Almost Tossed It Out
Sponsor, John Lawless

Human Written

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it was on a sunny day that sent me to exploring
         and I found an old cemetery
      inviting, sunlit and airy
                        and I could smell drifting rosemary
as I walked among the names my emotions were soaring
         I was lost in a sea of stones
     oh, tears came for the decayed bones
                        buried among sun dappled tones
my hair a dark river down my body flowing, pouring
        cotton candy flowers dying
     even the statues are sighing
                        the vines, vines were really trying
I almost tossed these lines out but for the question roaring
         will I be lost among the vines 
      a dead poet who wrote nice lines 
                        will keep 'til I see how life untwines

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