Friday, August 14, 2020

 

Haiku Friday: Memorials



Yesterday I got off the highway looking for gas and ended up at the Great Lakes National Cemetery. It is on rolling hills near Holly, Michigan.

I walked quietly among the headstones and found myself amazed at the diversity and bravery in this country.  I became fascinated by the faiths represented among those who served our country; you can see a full list of the available symbols here. The symbol chosen by Norris Ward Browner, for example is that of the Native American Church of North America. I passed many of the others as I wandered the green hills of the cemetery.

Memorials to the dead are important in many societies, and have deep meaning. Let's haiku about that this week.

Norris Ward Browner
Someone thought of you today
And changed a little.

Now it is your turn! Use the 5/7/5 syllable pattern, and have some fun!

Comments:
Walking at midnight,
A grave on the high bluff top .
Hear the Pacific.
 
Margarita, mourned
from Cuba to Assisi.
All her bushes bloom.

(We bought this house from Margy when she went to live with her daughter, and I get to enjoy what she planted in her garden every day.)
 
“...A German Soldier“
Black cross. Eternally shunned.
Conscript or zealot?


https://www.google.com/amp/s/time.com/2826794/at-d-day-commemoration-few-mourn-the-wars-losers/%3famp=true
 

Near Barbarenque, France
Hidden memorial to
four shot by Nazis
 

In Little’s Corners
Revolutionary War graves
Near old Grange Hall
 
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