Poems for March 20-21 -- Supplement of the Cemetary at Fort Rosencrans

 Poems selected included Inscription for a War by A.D. Hope, and the 6th poem in W.B. Yeats, Meditations in time of Civil War

One of my friends shared these two photos of the Cemetary at Fort Rosecrans, outside San Diego.

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As she puts it:  It is an overwhelming place,  which never fail to solicit tears for me.  Gravestones in every direction as far as your eye can see…

I replied to her with these links of the cemetary: https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Cemetary+at+Point+Loma&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 - lpg=cid:CgIgAQ==,ik:CAoSLEFGMVFpcE9YZ0c2eERQWTJnampTWUxWVFZCeXhoME0wM1oyUXdaN3g4QTlV

 

It's hard to see... all these silent white markers, no sign of the individuals, as if whatever life they led before fighting in a war didn't matter.  Indeed, they "took the orders" but now dead,

they cannot tell us about the life they could have lived instead.

 

One photo makes it look as if the white rows are arranged like festooned ribbons,

in the foreground, so many different silent pathways for the eye to arrange, repeating

no longer (Roy Cormier's photo).  It's a brilliant photo, with the level line of blue ocean,

the grave markers in the background amassed like tiny piles of pebbles, and only tops of trees planted below, except for two which show their trunks as well.