Visiting The Old Cemetery

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Written, May 27, 2025
For The Contest, “Cemetery”
Sponsor, Constance La France

The Couplet Sonnet is, as its name implies, a Sonnet made up
of couplets. It is also referred to as The Clare Sonnet
after John Clare, English Poet, 1793-1864

"Etched in stone- names of honored souls- remembering their roles and goals." _by Poet Oh, cemetery- at your rusted gate, I stand before it for a while and wait to gather thoughts of those I know are here- both family and friends, to me, so dear beneath the velvet blanket of spring grass, embraced forever from their earthly pass; with monuments above etched with a name and span of life on Earth, we can acclaim. The cemetery grants me space to think of my connections- how they interlink with kin and classmates resting here right now- and hope they feel I'm missing them somehow. I walk in slowly, shut the gate behind- to visit those where I feel love enshrined.

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