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From: Barbara <>
Subject: Re: [MO-CEMETERIES] A poem
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:40:04 -0400
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Thank you for sharing this lovely poem. It describes almost perfectly an
October trip I made to Missouri several years ago-to Old Smyrna
Cemetery. The cemetery, over grown and long forgotten, is located in the
middle of a pasture. My 2nd great grandfather, Elias Frey, was buried
there in 1869. The cemetery was originally located next to Old Smyrna
Church but it was destroyed many years ago.

Elaine Jenkins wrote:
> What a wonderful poem, Samuel. It reads like it could have come out
> of the "hobbit"--its kinda dark. I like it.
> On Oct 5, 2007, at 7:31 AM, samuels wrote:
>
>
>> A little poem found years ago(1986)COUNTRY GRAVEYARD by Mary Louise
>> CHEATAM
>>
>> "We crossed the fields with trepidation, passing at mouths of rocky
>> glades;
>> We walked in the fields, grown white with pappus, Avoiding the
>> groves and
>> the tattered shades. But we felt the sunlight, weird as shadow,
>> though we
>> followed the field, to avoid the wood. Our hilltop guide was a
>> black limbed
>> maple. We reached the spot where the farm once stood. We left
>> strange heel
>> marks, earth-crust broken, where only cattle were wont to tread;
>> Climbed to
>> the crest with no word spoken and stopped by the graves that hold
>> our dead.
>> There was only silence of life departed, And only memories woke and
>> stirred. We heard old sobs of the broken hearted, and once the cry
>> of some
>> wild bird.
>>
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