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# Mementos
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/mementos/
- Published: 2021-07-24T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-07-24T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Plagues visit every age Unbidden and unwanted Released from nature’s cage The cemeteries, haunted By ancient pain and tears The visitors can’t fathom Some cross to hide their fears And secrets gnawing at them “they ca...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Plagues visit every age  
Unbidden and unwanted  
Released from nature’s cage  
The cemeteries, haunted  
By ancient pain and tears  
The visitors can’t fathom  
Some cross to hide their fears  
And secrets gnawing at them  
“they came, they saw, they lived”  
Reads through, though it’s eroded  
Perhaps the stones achieved  
The pain that they encoded

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**Author notes:** 7\. On a Tuesday they were wed And by Friday they were dead And they buried them in the churchyard side by side, Oh, my love, And they buried them in the churchyard side by side. - Author: Cassandra Clare The image is a photo I took in an old Irish cemetary https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783763-Churchyard-Quotes-Prompts-