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Family Reunions

FAMILY REUNIONS 
City of weeping Angels
In muted mourning
Silent
Family reunions
Scratched in stone
Names once known
Quietly enduring
Metamorphosis
Flesh to Soul
Languid whispers
In nighttime breezes
Smothered tears
In day time mumuringsFlowers
 And
Prayers barely spoken
Connections forever broken
Fear in black veils
Hidden
Empty echoes to conversations
Love lost in earth’s prison
No welcome for the living
SilentFamily reunions
Scratched in stone
— Geremia, Jun 09, 2010

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Seren

Seren

16 years ago

Dearest Joe

wonderful poem dear man ... my life is a family reunion at the moment being down here meeting up with family etc lol love and hugs JayCee x x x ("Quote:-For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.-Ivan Panin")
Nordic cloud

Nordic cloud

16 years ago

You repeated the bit I liked best when I first read this Joseph

Ann of Norway "Family reunions Scratched in stone" I too like this bit and copy it out to emphasise it too. The wistful still of graveyards even when just outside their walls there is a lively traffic roaring; enter here and they are quieting to the mind and subconsciously we cut out all other sounds and concentrate on the tomb stones and their messages, tread carefully and softly on the grasses, or along the gravel paths between and feel the presence of people, many people and wonder who they all were and even sense that at some of these tombs, we should say something, they are lonely, or are they? The family come to the funeral from far and wide and meet perhaps only then, all are quiet in awe of the ceremony, nervous, even excited on meeting some of their kin for the first time. This atmosphere of reunion hangs again as you say Longoardolino in the scratches on the stones, caught in their recesses along with the mosses of time. "In day time mumurings" is daytime one word perhaps? and muRmurings! Love to you and may you have many happy reunions while you live. Annuccia.