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Rose<\/strong><\/p>\n Her grave lay under the rosebush. Rather than heavy black straps We left the ribbon in the earth The small wooden cross <\/p>\n <\/p>\n William Bridge<\/strong> has worked as a Funeral Director for many years and is now based in the South West. When not working or writing poetry he enjoys real ale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rose Her grave lay under the rosebush. We planted her first and by her parents\u2019 hands the rosebush followed shortly after. Rather than heavy black straps we used umbilical white ribbon to lower her into the three foot grave. We left the ribbon in the earth along with early spring daffodils, scattered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11693"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11695,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11693\/revisions\/11695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWe planted her first
\nand by her parents\u2019 hands
\nthe rosebush followed shortly after.<\/p>\n
\nwe used umbilical white ribbon
\nto lower her into
\nthe three foot grave.<\/p>\n
\nalong with early spring daffodils,
\nscattered purple petals
\nand a solitary red rose.<\/p>\n
\nbecame the arrow pointing
\ninto the earth,
\nto their fourteen month loss.<\/p>\n