Jemma and The Cemetery Angel

June 23, 2024June 24, 2024 / animar64 / 2 Comments

Back in 2021, I took my son and granddaughter on her first Cemetery exploration field trip.

She asked about monsters and then she gathered up her courage ( and her Dad ) and went up to the biggest monument in the cemetery and she reached out and touched it’s hand. She kept her eyes on it’s face and asked why it was sleeping and all I could think to say is that it was naptime. Then she asked if all of the monsters in their graves were taking a nap and I said, ‘ yes ‘.

She seemed relieved to hear that.

Julio and Jemma
August 6th, 2021
Wisconsin USA
Photo A.M. Moscoso

A couple of days later we walked across the street to a church so that Jemma could take one of her electric cars out for a spin in the lot and she trotted up to these statues to have a talk with them ( that’s what she told me ). She didn’t tell me what they talked about.

All I know is that she wanted to talk with the tall ‘angel lady’ and kept a protective arm around the ‘little girl’ the entire time.

” Jeamma “
August 9, 2021
Fox Lake, Wisconsin
USA

My granddaughter may have been a little scared of cemeteries and what sleeps in them back in 2021 but this was Jemma last Halloween. I think it’s safe to say she isn’t intimated by them now- would you?

Jemma as Wednesday
Photo A.M. Moscoso
2023

A Place To Rest Your Bones

June 21, 2024 / animar64 / Leave a comment

For Fandango’s One word challenge may I present to you some thoughts and pictures of cemeteries.

Phioto A.M. Moscoso
Oakwood Cemetery
Beaver Dam WI
October 2023

Cemetery:

Your home away from home

a place to rest your bones

everyone brings your flowers, sings to you, loves you unconditionally

or hates you with passion and even perfect strangers will know your name

because it’s carved in marble, in granite, in stone.

You’re not just a face in the crowd anymore.

Photo A.M. Moscoso
Evergreen Washelli Funeral Home and Cemetery

Cemetery:

Where the grass is always trimmed and green and nobody asks you to rake the leaves.

During the winter when it snows, during the Summer when it’s warm

it doesn’t matter what you wear, or what you smell like, or if you’re getting to much Sun

or not enough fresh air.

The seasons pass over head as quietly as time in a haunted house, where it is always

one minute after midnight.

Photo A.M. Moscoso
Oakwood Cemetery.
Beaver Dam WI USA
October2023

Cemetery:

Once my granddaughter asked me if there were monsters

buried in these graves and I said

there isn’t a single monster buried here.

She didn’t believe me.

My Granddaughter is a very smart girl.

“Jemma”
October 2023
Photo: A..M. Moscoso

So sleep on, with no fear.

June 3, 2024June 3, 2024 / animar64 / Leave a comment

Epitaphs are lullabies carved in stone

and I think that they are the saddest songs we sing.

Photo A.M. Moscoso Woodinville Washington USA

Photo A.M. Moscoso
Puyallup WA. Usa

Photo A.M. Moscoso
Bear Creek Cemetery
Woodinville Washington USA

Johannes Brahms Lyrics

Lullaby and Good Night Lyrics

Lullaby, and good night,
With pink roses bedight,
With lilies o’erspread,
Is my baby’s sweet head.
Lay you down now, and rest,
May your slumber be blessed!
Lay you down now, and rest,
May thy slumber be blessed!

Lullaby, and good night,
You’re your mother’s delight,
Shining angels beside
My darling abide.
Soft and warm is your bed,
Close your eyes and rest your head.
Soft and warm is your bed,
Close your eyes and rest your head.

Sleepyhead, close your eyes.
Mother’s right here beside you.
I’ll protect you from harm,
You will wake in my arms.
Guardian angels are near,
So sleep on, with no fear.
Guardian angels are near,
So sleep on, with no fear.

Lullaby, and sleep tight.
Hush! My darling is sleeping,
On his sheets white as cream,
With his head full of dreams.
When the sky’s bright with dawn,
He will wake in the morning.
When noontide warms the world,

June Writing Prompt 2024 #1