Monday, January 7, 2013

Haiku Heights 203...Script


Crow on gravestone, Cramond Kirk, Edinburgh 2009



Words faded and worn

Memories deep in cold stone

Written across time



This week's Haiku Heights befuddled me for a moment, then a photo I took one dreary morning popped into my head, along with a different perspective on the prompt.  A bit macabre, I admit, but that's the wonder in words...


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15 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 7, 2013 at 8:05 PM

    Very nice.I like the crow on the gravestone, too.
    Alice Keys MD
    Sorry for the anon. I couldn't get my WP to work here.

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    1. terleeJanuary 8, 2013 at 1:37 PM

      Thank you.

      I'm having some issues with Blogger...seems like it's always something. Sorry for WP not working.

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  2. Robbie GreyJanuary 8, 2013 at 11:51 AM

    The picture makes the poem that much more haunting.

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    1. terleeJanuary 8, 2013 at 1:40 PM

      Thank you.

      The graveyard--down the street from my house--was a very haunting place. Some of the headstones were from the 1600s...worn smooth by time and weather. I always felt sad for the people, with their names lost, lives forgotten.

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    2. Robbie GreyJanuary 8, 2013 at 6:32 PM

      Whilst the cemetery around here is not nearly as old, there are some unmarked graves. I wonder about those thus interred in those forlorn sites. Another project I consider; going to town and/or county archives, and trying to find names for those plots and perhaps getting a grant to acquire stones for said graves.

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    3. terleeJanuary 8, 2013 at 8:21 PM

      That would be a great project, Robbie...really.

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  3. ReshmaJanuary 8, 2013 at 2:02 PM

    nice take on the prompt...The haiku and the befitting image leaves one with a haunted feeling

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  4. The Write GirlJanuary 8, 2013 at 6:10 PM

    It appears to be the final script written in stone and very haunting. Nicely written.

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  5. கா.ந.கல்யாணசுந்தரம் January 8, 2013 at 11:05 PM

    I like the wordings and situation handled in this haiku. My best wishes.

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  6. AnonymousJanuary 10, 2013 at 7:48 AM

    How strangely similar to the post I was going to blog x I ttok a photo of a woodpecker on a gravestone! Loved your haiku x

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    1. terleeJanuary 10, 2013 at 8:54 AM

      It's funny how that happens. There have been lots of times I had a thought for a blog post, then read nearly the same idea on another blog.

      And thanks, for your comment on the haiku...

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  7. Magical Mystical TeacherJanuary 10, 2013 at 2:30 PM

    That's an enduring script...

    Weird Script

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  8. terleeJanuary 10, 2013 at 4:05 PM

    Yes, though perhaps not in the written words, but always in the echo of them.

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