Return Postcard Poem by Barry Middleton

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ghost upon the hill departed
yes the bones do lie
disheartened and discarded

autumn has no sharper smell
to consecrate the frost
wherein our souls must dwell

to bleached bones left behind
and time's beguiling wind
progeny is blind

grief salvation prayer and tears
can never consecrate
the finality of years

so the house where we endured
where fallen spirits failed
is evermore obscured

Sunday, February 14, 2016
Topic(s) of this poem: death,forget,past
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A return postcard to Wallace Stevens
and his 'A Postcard from the Volcano'.
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