Dear Ancestor (General)
by admin 
, Forest of Dean, Sunday, September 30, 2007, 06:48 (6266 days ago)
Dear Ancestor,
Your tombstone stands among the rest; neglected and alone.
The name and date are chiseled out on polished, black slate stone.
It reached out then to all who cared.
It is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I exist
You died and I was born.
Yet in each of us are cells of you in flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse entirely not our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled one hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left who would have loved you so.
I wonder how you lived and loved.
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find that spot and come to visit you.
Author Unknown
Lovers goodbye
by slowhands 
, proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Wednesday, October 03, 2007, 22:43 (6263 days ago) @ admin
" Lovers goodbye ! I cannot stay
To linger out a dusty day,
There is a soft sleep beneath the yew
Whose lamps burn red above my head.
I need no ray to light the way -
All ways are ended. I am dead.
'Tis from the grave I call to you,
Lovers goodbye."
Frederick William Harvey , Hartpury, (1888 – 1957)