the past stands
with me as a friend
keeping watch
– – –
Photo: Roman Baths (sculpture detail), Bath, England, c.b.w. 2005
Words: senryu, c.b.w. 2016
the past stands
with me as a friend
keeping watch
– – –
Photo: Roman Baths (sculpture detail), Bath, England, c.b.w. 2005
Words: senryu, c.b.w. 2016
Yes! Feeling the weight of history is comforting for me. Your poem captures that beautifully.
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Thanks! 🙂 I like to think the answers to many of life’s questions are embedded somewhere in the past – the same way they often are in a good friend.
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A marvelously insightful little verse to accompany your brilliant photo 🙂
Is that you? HI! lol (curious where this is?)
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Nope,not me. Just an unsuspecting tourist. I was more interested in the sculpture and architectural details to notice him until after I took the shot!
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OH I see now. The Roman Baths 🙂 my Reader did not relate this info. 😦 Just another place in England I Must visit!!
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It is an amazing place – one of my favorites. 🙂
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I definitely need to get there…and England in general 😉 Thank You for sharing them !
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