Necropolis [Haiku]

Posted on June 20, 2022 by B Gourley

the necropolis
sprawls across the desert --
desolate... to us

DAILY PHOTO: Desert Cemetery, Kyrgyzstan

wet yellow leaves
stuck to a rain-slick headstone,
and i'm in a land
not of tropical monsoons,
but which knows autumn

Posted on May 6, 2020 by B Gourley

a headstone
worn unreadable
stone outlived bones

fresh flowers
and wild tufts of grass
tell mixed stories

granite mourners
draped over gravestones,
unweeping

no pyramid
is so sublime the Pharaoh
welcomed death

the potter’s field
has mystique unknown to
mausoleums