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Jack Groundhog
Poems
Oct 17
The urn
A-walking through the foggy wood
I found a Roman urn
It marks what seems a noble grave
but its fate took a turn
It lacks a name or token word
to tell just who lies there
It blankly stares right back at me
without the slightest care
The puzzling urn says naught to me
I sit in somber peace
and then the answer falls in place:
itβs a grave for all deceased
For all the nameless of the past
the memorial stands here
The grandest grave that ever was
Unsung now sung I hear
Inspired by an unmarked grave topped by a Roman urn, seen in the forested overgrown Southwest Cemetery of Stahnsdorf near Berlin
#transience
#death
#graveyard
#anonymity
#remembrance
Written by
Jack Groundhog
53/M/Potsdam, Germany
(53/M/Potsdam, Germany)
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