Sunday, August 1, 2010

COMMON THYME

COMMON THYME

Time forgives what we cannot:
Rattled swords and battles fought.
Goldenrod for battered dead –
Meadow sweet for broken head –
Butcher’s Broom for genocide –
Caraway for those who died.

(15 July 2010, Battle, England, Hastings, Kent)

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