Remembering Jennie

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    Remembering Jennie

    Underneath a late summer sky
    walking two rambunctious dogs,
    who long to break free from the leash,
    straining to capture a squirrel,
    its taunting and teasing,
    with a dance from its tail

    Up the winding gravel and stones,
    past markers of forgotten souls,
    laid to eternal rest,
    gone beyond the clouds

    One particular stone commanded his attention,
    egg shell white,with weathered, marble lettering
    over one-hundred years passed, even before his birth
    the name chiseled across the stone was, 'Jennie'
    no last name was given,
    but she was the young wife of a Mr. William,
    how he longed to know her then,
    only separated by a lifetime,
    and a century of death...

    Every so often,
    he walked passed the stone,
    beneath the oak trees,
    such silent and proud sentries,
    powerful, graceful, solemn
    imagining her dancing,
    in a calico dress,
    long, honey brown hair
    tossed gently, side to side
    eyes sparkling with silent laughter

    Strange to feel this connection,
    when he would never have any recollection,
    or knowledge of her life,
    the hardships she certainly must have faced

    Even went on the Internet,
    to search for her family name,
    lost in some old records,
    hiding beyond a century slowly passing

    Located a family plot,
    but he never found any photographs,
    to justify these visions he had,
    of a 30-something, young wife,
    dancing beneath the oaken canopy

    Brought along a camera,
    to record her stone marker
    remembering this moment forever,
    how the sun filtered through the leaves,
    kissing the ground with dabs of sunlight

    Never to truly know of her passing,
    any history at all,
    as time neuters the stone,
    another century gone,
    nothing but a toppled, crumbled marker
    no cherished remembrances left,
    or humanity to recall

    mathiasthom
    written 2/27/09

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    sk commented on Remembering Jennie

    03-18-2009

    Bittersweet; Wonder what she would think about some man 100 yrs later, even stopping to ponder her existence at all?

    Sidecar commented on Remembering Jennie

    02-28-2009

    Excellent job . . . 'nough said.

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