Candles [Free Verse]

Ancient cathedral: 
pews & altar
long gone.
Cold air creeps
through cracks
to flicker candles,
Candles lit for
those long dead —
though long remembered —
on a cold, winter day.

DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from the United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Korea

DAILY PHOTO: Ambedkar Memorial, Lucknow

DAILY PHOTO: Bukit Cina [Chinese Hill — 三宝山]

World War II Resistance Memorial
One (communal) grave/memorial is at the highest point of the hill.
Poh San Teng Temple [a.k.a. Bǎo Shān Tíng]

DAILY PHOTO: Proclamation of Independence Memorial, Melaka

DAILY PHOTO: Genocide Memorials: Miniature and Full-Size

We stumbled onto this roadside miniature replica of the Genocide Memorial of Yerevan a few miles up the road from Tatev Monastery in Southeastern Armenia. The actual memorial:

DAILY PHOTO: Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial

DAILY PHOTO: Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall

DAILY PHOTO: Hualien Martyrs’ Shrine

DAILY PHOTO: Sun Yat-Sen Memorial, Taipei