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American Graveyard in Manila

American Graveyard in Manila ATR/97.1 We climb to the cemetery where traffic sounds seem worlds away, enter through iron gates from the grime of city streets to a green world with white markers set carefully in tended lawns, under leafed trees where small bird songs, lost in chiming carillon, invite our gaze to war maps and words describing the battles that grew the many crosses here. As the chimes cease and silence surrounds our somber thoughts, we honor our too silent hosts. I recall newsreels of tired troops in retreat, tending their wounds, eating their meager rations, but films to honor warriors’ valor have not prepared me for beauty like this, where doves and white-eyes fly gracefully among the dead, as they keep watch over stone crosses standing in solemn readiness for visitors who gaze and talk, but leave in awe, wondering why such sacrifice is necessary. Richard H. Peake Richard H. Peake published early poems in Impetus and The Georgia Review, and more recently in Avocet, Boundless 2014, Enigmatist, Red River Review, The Road Not Taken, and other journals. Collections of his poetry include Wings Across . . . (Vision Press, 1992), Birds and Other Beasts (iUniverse, 2007), and Earth and Stars (Americas Press, 2013), among others. A lifelong naturalist, a father, and a grandfa- ther, he has published two novels and completed a third. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anglican Theological Review SAGE

American Graveyard in Manila

Peake, Richard H.
Anglican Theological Review , Volume 97 (1): 1 – Aug 16, 2021
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10.1177/000332861509700109
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ATR/97.1 We climb to the cemetery where traffic sounds seem worlds away, enter through iron gates from the grime of city streets to a green world with white markers set carefully in tended lawns, under leafed trees where small bird songs, lost in chiming carillon, invite our gaze to war maps and words describing the battles that grew the many crosses here. As the chimes cease and silence surrounds our somber thoughts, we honor our too silent hosts. I recall newsreels of tired troops in retreat, tending their wounds, eating their meager rations, but films to honor warriors’ valor have not prepared me for beauty like this, where doves and white-eyes fly gracefully among the dead, as they keep watch over stone crosses standing in solemn readiness for visitors who gaze and talk, but leave in awe, wondering why such sacrifice is necessary. Richard H. Peake Richard H. Peake published early poems in Impetus and The Georgia Review, and more recently in Avocet, Boundless 2014, Enigmatist, Red River Review, The Road Not Taken, and other journals. Collections of his poetry include Wings Across . . . (Vision Press, 1992), Birds and Other Beasts (iUniverse, 2007), and Earth and Stars (Americas Press, 2013), among others. A lifelong naturalist, a father, and a grandfa- ther, he has published two novels and completed a third.

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Published: Aug 16, 2021

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