Cemetery



I went to the graveyard
-only visiting today

simple burials - there
was no sense of doom

with a picnic, it would
have been nice to stay

in the autumn sunshine
of the outdoor room

away from the village
and petty backbiting

I really felt my
flagging spirits rise

some of us are not
born for fighting;

but young soldiers
still think killing wise;

it was good to sense
myself part of the plan

not better than a bird
or stoat, or fox

remembering the times
I happily ran

with no need to think,
or look at clocks;

I’m worried fragile
bones might go soon

to the lonely place
beyond us all

where so many leaves
are brittle, strewn

and so many more
are still to fall
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Submitted on January 25, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme XA XB XA XB XC XD XC XD XE XF XE XF XG XH XG XH
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 627
Words 127
Stanzas 16
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2

Paul Judges

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