Caryl Ramsdale, American Poetess
DEATH
know God
puts all your
tears in a
bottle?
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they left in the land of Go’-shen. And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company. And they came to the threshingfloor of A’-tad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made mourning for his father seven days. GENESIS 50:7-10 KJV
TO CATCH A TEAR
A Tears in a Bottle Collection Signature Poem.
to Cheryl Casey Clark and Ruby Casey Barger
Listen, hear the story I’ve told that’s attached to grief and distress;
It's how some handled bereavement when they put on a mourning dress.
The legend of the tear bottle was set in motion long ago;
During ancient Roman times its custom expressed deep sorrow.
Mourners would fill glass vials with woeful tears they’d cry and collect;
Tears were sentimental tokens symbolic of love and respect.
Sometimes women were paid to cry when they joined the funeral line
Loudest weepers shedding most tears gained the most coins every time.
The showy mourning processions measured the deceased person’s worth
By captured teardrops, anguish cries and agonizing friends on earth.
The traditional tear bottle that was placed as a fine showpiece
In someone’s burial tomb would conclude the death release.
Nobody seems to know just when, not the day, the date, nor the year;
But reference predates Christ’s birth, for bottles made to catch a tear.
© Copyright 1999-2010 Caryl Ramsdale. All Rights Reserved.
Couplet Poetry Form Defintion : Stanzas made up of two rhyming lines of a verse that form a unit. Sometimes they rhyme aa.
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July 08, 2003
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