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Open Poetry #40

Set in Stone

ivordavies
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since 2007-01-10

Posts 739
Chester, England

0 posted 2007-03-04 07:00 PM

Set in Stone.

Limestone is a funny rock
it’s hard, and rough, and green,
but years of pressure on this stone
make changes most supreme.

Marble appears, quite rough to touch,
but cut and polished bare,
it then becomes most beautiful
of all the rocks we share.

Engravers, then they set to work,
most skillful at their art
and make this stone a record
of the best we hold to heart.

On plaques and gravestones, memories kept,
for all who come to see,
this noble stone will carry forth
mankind’s long family tree.

Ivor G Davies

The moment created this second, is a moment that's going to last.
It lives the full spectrum of time, the future, the present and past.

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

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1 posted 2007-03-04 10:28 PM

this reminds me of when I was in college taking Earth Science...six weeks of rocks...and I never wanted to see another rock or stone as long as I lived...but then I went to the Smithsonian in Washington DC and spend nearly two hours looking at the stones and rocks

amazing trip that was!

aziza
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since 2006-07-09

Posts 2995
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2 posted 2007-03-05 11:50 PM

I went to Maine with my Mother a number of years ago and visited the family cemetary. I didn't know we had one til then as Maine is not my home state. It was pretty amazing to wander through headstones dated back to the late 1600's. It was more amazing to consider that these people were part of my family -

Thank you for bringing this thought back to me.

A

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