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#WritePhoto Haunted Quarters
May 18, 2017
— #ancestors #archetypes # insight #history, #writephoto, poetry
weeping window
The tower had been built in the time of the beheadings
Torture and murder were the order of the day
They wiped out knights and murdered the queens
Who did not please the monarch by giving him a male heir
Some of my ancestors lost their heads, fortunes, and means
As players in the center of the Tudor dynasty reign of terror
Some spent their last night in confinement writing poetry
To leave a written legacy to the future subjects of the crown
The sorrow and the suffering of every tortured soul is evident
The stones are carved with the names of the doomed who have past
While the window weeps tears of the ghosts who haunt the present
With their unresolved memories of cruel and heartless treatment
Looking from this point of view we can see the harm done by violence
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This poem is in response to this week’s photo prompt from Sue Vincent’s Echo. Join writers from around the globe each week to read, comment, or write your own story for #writephoto.
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Your poem goes extremely well with the picture. It also gave me a Middle Age and gloomy feeling.
There’s a very strong perception of tears rather than raindrops in this image. I like your version of whose tears they are.
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Love your poem about those who suffered under Henry VIII.What a great way to honor their premature deaths.
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Photo prompt round up – Inside-out #writephoto | Sue Vincent's Daily Echo reblogged this and added:
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