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Constance La France's Cemetery Contest...posted 29 May 25...' re- post for seth pina's favorite #4...No one is completely prepared to bury glorious memories...' by poet

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Reflections In A Cemetery

Somehow, the deluge of cloudburst unwraps my flesh pallid, as if to spill holy water--maybe thickened dew—just to give a name to lapses of my unheard cries, while an insolent breeze fails to listen as I howl in utter despair of life's requiem: The thistle of wet soil chains my feet anchored unto the swell of memories' bend; remaining distant in an unknown, vacant cemetery nourishing a loneliness only vagrants like me could bear: A scream of rain compels a thirst to feed on abrasions of ghastly pang...alone, isolated from new moonlight's lodging my solitude, my invisible frame starts to sigh behind the roughest of rain's marbled stone--- How can fresh mornings be so darn bleak?
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Gasun Avatar
June 2, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Huge & Warmest Congrats on your well-deserved first place win and this stellar poem my dear Nette! Cheers! Thanks for sharing. Blessings to you always. Hugs
Hind Avatar
May 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Sounds like a loss deep in the soul. I agree with Kim..."madman or ghost"- powerful, drives empathy into the reader...phantasmic language as well
Parker Avatar
May 29, 2025 at 7:13 AM
haunting in its depth Nette, the moan of loneliness in a cemetery of souls...
Rodrigues Avatar
May 29, 2025 at 5:18 AM
only vagrants like me could bear…seems a madman or a ghost, perhaps both. The setting somber and wretched. Well done.
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