final wish…

By John Blase | February 3, 2012 |
I wish you to chisel Latin on my headstone,
a dead phrase for a dead man but maybe
incognita enough to spur curiosity in a future
heir, to rouse wanderlust in her loins so she
returns home to rummage for its meaning
among my old books, on a page dog-eared
by me for her, her I dreamed but never met. 
 
per freta hactenus negata – 
to have negotiated a strait the very existence of which has been denied.
 
Chisel the words so my great granddaughter
might then live haunted by a dead man and the
cusp, and inherit courage for unknown waters.
 
 

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10 Comments

  1. Melinda Viergever Inman on February 3, 2012 at 2:25 pm

    I just subscribed to your blog recently. These last three postings have been so beautiful and poignant as to move me to tears. Your writing is poetic. It stirs the heart.

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  2. pottersinn on February 3, 2012 at 2:29 pm

    Perhaps your best one, John. Stunning! Is this really you writing?

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    • thebeautifuldue on February 3, 2012 at 3:38 pm

      Thanks, Steve…not sure I understand your question, but yes, this is really me.

      Reply
  3. Lizzie on February 3, 2012 at 4:01 pm

    Beautiful and stunning. I love to wander cemeteries and wonder about the people beneath the stones. Sometimes it’s not only the heirs looking for meaning. This is incredible.

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    • thebeautifuldue on February 3, 2012 at 9:39 pm

      Thank you, Lizzie…I, too, love to wander graveyards…

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  4. thescreamingkettle on February 3, 2012 at 4:07 pm

    I…just…wow. yeah. Thank you.

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    • thebeautifuldue on February 3, 2012 at 9:41 pm

      David, I appreciate you taking the time to stop in and read…and leave those words.

      Reply
  5. deb colarossi on February 5, 2012 at 2:40 am

    incredible. absolutely.

    Reply

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