Welcome to Day 15 of Drawing Into Poems, my daily drawing/seeing/writing study into poetry. You can read more about this month-long project here on my April 1 post. Feel free to read the books with me, and pull out your own sketchbook and jewelry box full of metaphor too...
Day 15 - Hunters Creek Cemetery
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What places make you feel grateful and reflective? It is important for all of us to find places where we can find our quiet selves and just think. Cemeteries slow me down and help me remember what matters most to me. I wish that I could talk with all of the people buried here, learn from them, hear their lessons.
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Ah, yes, so many stories. There is a very old cemetery in a medieval town near here that is presided over by a slightly crazy man. He spends his days repeating a monologue of the stories behind all the stones and crosses.
ReplyDeleteI prefer the woods and the sea for stories, since cemeteries make me too sad.
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A cemetery near our home has a long staircase to nowhere, hidden, engulfed by trees and shrubbery. Someday I hope to learn the history of why it's there, where it once led.
ReplyDeleteI love strolling through cemeteries too, Amy - sketching, imagining, reflecting, appreciating. Thanks for sharing this post today! (I have visited Randolph Caldecott's grave in a humble cemetery in St. Augustine, Fla., a couple of times. So humbling to be there among the pines and birds and palm trees...!)
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