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North Burial Ground
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North Burial Ground

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many names are engraved here
in this cemetery with lives lost
and hope never forgotten

we keep their memory alive
and we remember best we can
to live each day as the gift it truly is

lives cut too short
no matter the age.
we pay our respects

and share a story or two.
we are made of the stars
as much as what mark we left behind

today I honor all those
who are laid to rest
in this holy sacred ground

Learn more about the North Burial Ground here:
https://www.providenceri.gov/parks/north-burial-ground/

Each generation
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Each generation

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Each generation faces its own 
struggle and strife.
We demand answers to our questions.
We search for firm footing.
The answers are not so clearcut
bold and obvious – though sometimes they are.
Simple solutions seem almost laughable.
The riddle rattles around in our head.

It tumbles and rolls quiet 
like a desert weed across a vast landscape
or loud
like coins in a canister 
we shake up and down 
or a magic ball that should solve all!
Conclusive, personal it is not.

And what of the scholar who writes and reads
scouring pages upon pages
fixed wood in their hands.
The letters fall off the page.
Can I pluck them off one by one
and make sense of the chatter?

The noise that rattles.
It morphs from chatter to laughter,
sob and sigh.
A tooth-saw grin etched into wood.
A permanent mark of what I once understood.

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The Maker’s Mark

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Singed and tattered
Void of life
Just brown husks
of what used to be.

Do I let them stand there
Like marked gravestones?
Do I pull them out
Roots so deep?

I gave them time to bounce back.
Now spring has sprung
And the tattered and torn are not
Returning back to glory.

The maker’s mark on what has been
But is never more.