How many families reside in this place
How many generations can I possibly trace
So quiet and calm serene and asleep
As above you I try to quietly creep
I don't wish to disturb you but I'd like to see
Reminders of people that interest me
As I slip back in time to days that are gone
Picturing people who long ago shone
When death came so easy and took you away
Never to see another new day
Then laid to rest in this hallowed ground
Where nothing above makes no move or no sound
Except may be for me as I carefully tread
This garden wherein sleeps the souls of the dead.

© Catherine Turner-Joll


Photograph above St. Michaels Church Yard, Haworth, W. Yorkshire
by © Catherine Turner-Joll


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