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| Scarcliffe Church Derbyshire on a winter afternoon. (George Roberts 2014 - Digital media) |
The Church
by George Roberts
Set in winter sun and cerulean sky
Old weathered stone
Cold to the hand
Warm to the eye
The church is anchored by geology and geneaology
Limestone blocks resting on limestone rocks
Marriage on baptism
Burial on marriage
An idea and artifact founded in a community's past, present and future
A social and spiritual metronome
Each muted beat counts the passage of time and souls departed
An incessant but silent pulse, repeated endlessly since Pagan times
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