All Comments on 'Effigy'

the organization of three line stanzas, here

no matter, good stuff-5ed of course

I'm seeing a sepulchre with a carved figure on in. You really convey the peace and hush of it...and the sense of time stretching to eternity. I wonder now who it is? :)

Beautifully composed!

There is so much in it.

Little historical information given, but I would not like more. I prefer to keep on guessing who she is and where she lies. English, attractive fragile female, 600 hundred years ago, married twice, died young? (I'll try to make as many guesses as I can).

You capture very precisely the quite and sublime atmosphere of the interior of a gothic building, either cathedral or big church, "never truly bright", but with the soft light of the stained glass where "a thin rain patters".

Your first question, (did she have a happy life?) is, I think, the correct first question that should come to mind looking at her effigy and maybe is answered in a strange way at the end. Time cannot touch her anymore. We'll never know.

Thanks for sharing. I have to do thinking tonight.

5ed, of course

:)

Beautiful verse : bravo , Dem !

Tombstones can talk back silently. TK U MLJ LV NV