Etched In Stone

An oldie found and re posted

And with their first breath
etched the first date,
the hyphen is then their life led,
be it days, be it weeks,
many decades or more,
'til a full stop declares
" They are dead "

Reviews

[Shy Joe]

You can write your story in erasable graphite on paper, or with force, wielding a chisel, pounding stone. You would think the story would be the same on different canvas.

But effort makes all the difference. Effort makes the story. Enjoyed your poem. Thanks for sharing.

[Gee]

Cheers Joe...

[Relic]

There's a cemetery I walk through and I see the same graves. One family is buried in the same plot. The death dates are all the same.

Glad you found this, interesting to read and think about.

[BBP]

Love to see that kind of thing .. let's you play a story .. I'm a huge fan of walking through cemeteries.. literally the most relaxing and beautiful place around

[Relic]

My grandfather use to tell me people are dying to get in there. :) Yes, they are certainly peaceful even among such a large crowd.

[BBP]

So very true!

[Gee]

Thank you relic, might have this put onto my own headstone, it will be my only published work...

[BBP]

Brilliant use of a tombstone

[Gee]

I conducted a poll of 10 of my friends, yes I do have that many, and not one of them had heard of a tombstone, not one. So I stopped 10 strangers, again not 1 of them had heard of a tombstone. So I thought f**k it, what the f**k, why don't the fuckers know what a F*****g tombstone is, shall I ask Jay whatever his F*****g name is, he's a know all f****r who's bound to know.
Thank you.

[BBP]

Hahahahaha omg I can't even with that f*****g guy. Finally removed him but I had to reply to him first and kick his righteous high horse in the leg.

Can you imagine that fool asking 10' people what a Shovelhead is? Uhhmmm only one of the most daughters after Harley's ...but nobody knew lmao...

[BBP]

Sought after not daughter lol

[Matthew Kult]

Wistfully discontent

Great Read

Matthew

[Gee]

Cheers Matthew, glad you enjoyed

[Ken Simm.]

Strangely I wander through graveyards. Sometimes you find the most heartbreaking poetry. As here. You have captured a life in few words. It was said that
Matisse could produce an accurate portrait in five lines. You have taken two more.

[Gee]

Cheers Ken, strange what goes round in our heads..

[Annette Pisano-Higley]

And so our lives are briefly summarized and "etched in stone". Beautiful, pondering write in eloquent,classic words and style. We live and we die- "Ay, there's the rub."- or is it?...

[Gee]

I believe so. Thank you Annette

[John Alexander McFadyen]

The tale of the headstone told in breathless thoughts as the protagonist treads the tufted overgrown graveyard and wonders at each epitaph. Succinct and very engagingly effective Gee.

[Gee]

Thank you John