Cemetery - September 7, 2014

 For Carpe Diem Haiku Kai ... let's contemplate cemeteries:

 

necropolis
city of the beloved
in Bolognano

peacefully sleep
in your solemn beds
candles and flowers

memory lane
paved with white gravel
the cemetery

G.s.k. '14

In Italy you won't usually find cemeteries in the classical American sense of the word.  Land is precious and the dead like the living have cities to dwell in not gardens and parks ... the exceptions are the Allied War Cemeteries that can be found in Southern and Central Italy (like Anzio, Monte Cassino or just outside Florence).

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sleeping peacefully
the Best Western Motel
by the cemetery

grave marker
as a cradle headboard
rest in peace

abandoned cemetery
iron keys cross the ground
no one going in

© Jane Reichhold