Study of a Tombstone Angel

Study of a Tombstone Angel

Study of a Tombstone Angel

Study of a Tombstone

an angel is a portal...

Study of a Tombstone Angel

Angel with eternal  roses.

angels at play said, Princess Haiku

The Italian Cemetery
Colma, California
Late 1800s

At twilight I could hear the voices of children at play in the Cemetery. "Aren't you supposed to be sleeping," I asked?  They just laughed as children will and I found consolation in their little patter.

Angel of Cypress Lawn

an angel lost in eternity and thought...

Study of a Tombstone Angel

Study of a Tombstone Angel

consolation for an angel said, Princess Haiku

Jennie Roosevelt Pool memorial marked with the Angel of Grief in Cypress Lawn Cemetery in Colma, California.

angel watching over a city of souls said, Princess Haiku

angel guarding the city of souls said, Princess Haiku

I captured this angel watching over the sleeping souls of  Cypress Lawn Cemetery in Colma. It was an overcast day with scarcely a touch of blue in the sky.  "Poet, what are you doing wandering about a graveyard," I asked myself and had no answer.. After all it is in the nature of a poet to wander into the outer territories of the living and sometimes into the other world itself.

profound silence in a city of souls said, Princess Haiku

a sorrowing angel

I spent several hours in the Colma Necropolis outside of SF today and captured enough images of angels to be satisfied. I had also read about the priceless Tiffany Stained Glass ceilings in the Cypress Lawn Public Mausoleum and had to see and capture those. They comprise one of the largest displays of opalescent glass in the United States. They were made and installed between 1890- 1930.

There were also individual private mausoleums with their own small windows. -Just amazingly and eerily beautiful. The solitude inside the Great Mausoleum is a bit intense. One of the crypts was engraved, "To my beloved bride." The bride had died in the early 1900's three months after her marriage. I could image her ghost sweeping through the hushed and somber halls of the mausoleum with its otherworldly beauty, in her white wedding dress and veil. 

Now it is time to seek more lively company although I will be posting the images I captured over the course of several months. Like Persephone, I have entered the underworld temporarily and will be sharing the somber beauty that I discovered. 

a longing for angel wings, said Princess Haiku

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_about_angels

angels that were having a subtle conversation, said Princess Haiku

They were whispering to each other, said Princess Haiku. I couldn't quite get the drift of their conversation but it seemed well, otherworldly. What do you think they were talking about?

Princess Haiku Offers Consolation to those Affected by the Virginia Tech Tragedy

He who learns must suffer, and, even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.




Aeschylus