Attendance

grooveamaticgrooveamatic Posts: 1,374
edited September 2005 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
The minister in silent thought
Among the stone markers
On the misty morning
Frowns his face,
Surveys the flock.

Three years, four years,
I know you still.


Shuffling gently now down
The weedgrown path
His moving hand brushes
The obelisks, the mauseleums,
The taller-than-they-were's.

Ten years, twelve years,
Have you found yet a home?


Pausing at the gate
Turning 'round,
The elms at the edge of the clearing
Shimmer with Northern wind,
The load of winter
Promised the branches.

Twenty-five years,
I wait still to join you.


Her stone is tilted to a wavering angle,
Watersluiced and mosswearing.
The world recedes in the blackness of memory.
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  • AliAli Posts: 2,621
    That is so beautiful groove.Something that is common between the solemn life.Waiting to meet the one you love in the afterlife.I think everyone does wish for that.



    :)
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  • ISNISN Posts: 1,700
    this is very moving Groove.....immediately I thought of my father's grave, and whether anyone visits it anymore over in London......the poem is really good, and I like the passage of years between the verses
    ....they're asking me to prove why I should be allowed to stay with my baby in Australia, because I'm mentally ill......and they think I should leave......
  • Thanks you guys! I'm really happy with this one!!!!
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  • NothingbetterNothingbetter Wichita, KS Posts: 570
    I love poems that pain a picture...one you can visualize, and this one does it wonderfully.

    Awesome piece, groove!
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  • ISNISN Posts: 1,700
    Groover....you're where it's at.....come whisper sweet nothings into my ear one day.....when I'm as lost as I am tonight......I jus wanted you to know in case you thought I was ignoring you......that I think you're where it's at.......
    ....they're asking me to prove why I should be allowed to stay with my baby in Australia, because I'm mentally ill......and they think I should leave......
  • ISN wrote:
    Groover....you're where it's at.....come whisper sweet nothings into my ear one day.....when I'm as lost as I am tonight......I jus wanted you to know in case you thought I was ignoring you......that I think you're where it's at.......

    I am blushing.

    And if you're ever in the states, give me a ring. I love to whisper sweet nothings.

    Let me get to know you and it won't be long before I begin whispering sweet somethings. It's a bad habit of mine.
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