Friday, 5 June 2009

Undedicated Bench

In honour of Gerald England and his Ackworth Born blog, here's a Friday Bench, taken this morning.


An open sided bench
one side facing the graves
the other,
the distant trees and houses.

I am left to wonder
which way a person sits
To remember the dead
or reflect upon life?

14 comments:

spacedlaw said...

Maybe the best way is to lie upon it and look at the sky?

Unknown said...

How interesting. I like Nat's suggestion, I think. The cemetery is lovely.

Rachel Green said...

It was lovlier before they started felling trees.

Gerald (Ackworth born) said...

google alerted me this - love the photo and the thought-provoking poem - cemeteries make lovely photo opportunities.

Rachel Green said...

I was inspired by your post :)

Gotta love google alerts

aims said...

Spacedlaw has a good suggestion.

Or perhaps lying looking down.

Depends on where we think the deceased went I guess....

Rachel Green said...

It's a slatted bench so one could look down :)

Rune Eide said...

Death comes soon enough. I choose to reflect on life as long as I have it.

Rachel Green said...

Very wise :)

PERBS said...

Came from Gerald's site because I love benches! I was rewarded seeing "yours" and enjoyed the poetry also. After reflecting on the graves looking towards the cemetary, one can reflect on life looking the other direction! Seeing the path closer to the cemetary, I am almost certain no one looks the other way while sitting there. . .

I enjoyed your bench. Tank you!

PERBS said...

Tank you = Thank you from a typist with a typo.
:o(

Rachel Green said...

Thanks for visiting, Perbs. I think most people look at the graves.

I put another bench pic up today, and have you seen DJ Kirkby's blog?
http://benchpics.blogspot.com/

DJ Kirkby said...

Wow...I like :)

Rachel Green said...

Thank you :)