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Cemetery studies, Cemetery Friends In the distant past, an archaeologist Haikuist and storyteller Three score years and ten

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winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 5h

silence after anger
curdled milk
works its way
through the drains

#senryu #haiku
#haikufeels (curdle)
#micropoetry

winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 1d

kites fly
but joy
is not resolvable
from space

#PJJournal
#senryu
@prunejuicejournal.bsky.social

winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 2d

avoiding puddles
accepting our children
have different ideas

#dailyhaikuprompt (avoid)
#senryu #haiku

winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 2d

time's arrow
for a day or two
she's the height
of her mother

#senryu
#haiku
#micropoetry

winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 2d

in a yellow wood the neat cut through my mother's ring

#haikufeels (relic)
#haiku
#OneLineOctober
#monoku
#RobertFrost

Reposted by winterroom

Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 3d

Pensive Mary quietly rests and feeds her baby on the way to Egypt, before a completely amazing landscape that includes lots of thwarted idolatry & miracles! By Joachim Patinir of Antwerp, whose day is today.

winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 3d

night chill
our bathroom spiders
disappear

#dailyhaikuprompt (night chill)
#haiku

winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 3d

the echo of crows winter is coming

#haikufeels (crow)
#haiku
#OneLineOctober
#monoku

winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 3d

night is for the moon and the bakery window

#dailyhaikuprompt flour
#haiku #monoku

winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 4d

off to the show
fastening a seat belt
on the marrow

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home from the show
a prize marrow
on the front seat

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the long sigh
of the marrow grower
the pumpkin wins

#haikufeels (marrow)
#haiku

winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 4d

#31DaysofGraves ( #Bird )
@wardsendcemetery.bsky.social
( #Sheffield )

I didn't notice the robin as I took this.

I fear Tom Wharton would't be happy about the state of his beloved 'Owls' at the moment.

Sheffield Wednesday fans raised money to install this gravestone in 2020.

A modern black gravestone bearing the crest of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club (which features an owl). A robin is perched on the corner of the base.

winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 4d

forsythia...
may Eden for her
be a yellow garden

#dailyhaikuprompt yellow
#haiku

winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 4d

Sorry, I will re-post later

winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 4d

#31DaysofGraves (languages)

@wardsendcemetery.bsky.social ( #Sheffield ) has fewer use of other languages than many sites in the city. This example of Latin (Resurgam = I will rise again) is an exception. It's an apt declaration of faith for a scripture reader who died in church during a service

Two images. 1. A newspaper cutting with a photograph of a young man wearing a surplice and holding a book (perhaps a prayer book or a bible). 2. A grey gravestone in the form of a cross, listing details of the Goddard family.

A gravestone in the form of a cross with other graves and trees behind. The ground is covered in dead leaves.

winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 4d

correction: it was the simplyhaiku.thehaikufoundation.org winter kukai. The link is an archive, it ceased publication in 2009.

winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 5d

over the frosty hill
comes a stick
then a dog

(re-post, originally from a Shiki mailing list kukai 2003)

#dailyhaikuprompt (frost)
#haiku #micropoetry

winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 5d

Beautiful! I also find interesting the strong connection to her childhood home expressed by the line about Cawthorne.

Friends of Wombwell Cemetery @fowcemetery.bsky.social · 5d

Day 4: Languages. #31DaysOfGraves

Today we’ve chosen to go with the latin “In Memoriam”. Although a common choice on graves, we noticed a small arrow on this stone that we just had to share. This is the grave of Sarah Ann (Blacker) Lisle and John Lisle. The arrow appears behind the A in Blacker.

The stone of Sarah Ann and John Lisle. The stone is a long rectangular shape, with carved ivy leaves on scrolls on either side.

A zoomed in photo of the text. A little arrow appears over Sarah’s maiden name, which is in brackets, “Blacker”. The arrow appears behind the letter A.

The prompt list for 31 Days of Graves.

winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 5d

#31DaysofGraves (languages)
I took this last week in the Musem of Copenhagen. The label explains that in the 18th century mortality was so high in the city that constant immigration was needed. Many of those immigrants came from Germany. My Danish Great Grandparents were both of German heritage

A small gravestone displayed in a museum with an inscription in German

winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 5d

so many gopher wood splinters in Noah's hands

#haikufeels (splinter)
#OneLineOctober
#monoku
#haiku

winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 5d

#31DaysofGraves tomb #WalkleyCemetery (Sheffield)

Cpl Fredrick Wilson R.F.A. A veteran who re-enlisted. He'd been working as a postman

"Soon shall come the great awaking
Soon the rending of the #tomb .."

From 'Through the Night of Doubt and Sorrow,' a Danish hymn translated by Sabine Baring-Gould

Part of a gravestone recording the death in 1916 in France of a soldier called Fredrick Wilson.

A gravestone with the inscription:

In affectionate remembrance of ALFRED ROYSTON dearly loved & only son of FREDERICK & MAUD WILSON who passed away Sep 23rd 1915 aged 4 years & 11 months
Also of the above FREDERICK dearly beloved husband of MAUD WILSON who died of wounds received in action in France May 8 1916 aged 47 years
Soon shall come the great awaking
Soon the rending of the tomb
Then the scattering of all shadows
And the end of toil and gloom
Also of the above MAUD who died July 21 1963 aged 90 years Dearly loved
Also BEATRICE DOROTHY beloved daughter of the above (buried 12.10.1972 aged 64)

winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 7d

ghastly white an old mare worked to death

#haikufeels (ghastly)
#OneLineOctober
#WiddecombeFair
#haiku

winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 7d

spelt's not a cereal he says with not a grain of commonsense

#dailyhaikuprompt (grain)
#senryu #haiku
#OneLineOctober

winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 7d

#31DaysofGraves day 2 ( #Nautical ) The grave of Ernest W Beston in Witton Cemetery in #Birmingham. Beston was a mysterious and eccentric bookmaker and gambler. His lucky number was 13 and the memorial consists of 13 stones. There are 13 windows in the lighthouse and 13 steps leading up to it.

winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 7d

#31DaysofGraves day 2 #Nautical . Stoker 1st class Clarence Taylor died in the sinking of the battlecruiser HMS Queen Mary in the Battle of Jutland in 1916. Of the crew of 1,286 only 20 survived. Clarence is commemorated on a family grave in #WalkleyCemetery #Sheffield

Part of a grey gravestone, with trees behind. The top of the stone has carvings of bunches of flowers and a scroll with the words 'Thy will be done'.

An old photo of a warship.

winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social · 7d

It was the Millsands Tavern, named after the street/area