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Open Poetry #26

"The Bones."

ffpercent243
Junior Member

since 2003-05-04

Posts 37
United Kingdom

0 posted 2003-05-17 01:02 PM

My adult daughter was crying today,
For when planting flowers, she had dug up a pile of bones
And she had remembered that they were of the kitten
She had buried as a child,
After it had been ran over
Outside our house.

"I had forgotten all about it, dad"
She says softly:
I put the kettle on to brew her a cuppa
As the flower seeds blew away, forgotten in the breeze.

Later, we reburied the bones together,
And made a small cross out of the sunset
And our silent hands.

If I am silent, it is because I am thinking, if I do not talk, please do not think I am rude.

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

1 posted 2003-05-17 01:05 PM

poignant
re-bury, yes, and let them become one with the soil,
to live again

ThisDiamond
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-02-22

Posts 9353
Michigan, USA

2 posted 2003-05-17 01:20 PM

The picture painted with silent hands has more expression than any words could. TD

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

3 posted 2003-05-17 01:56 PM

wow...I liked this

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