Graveyard

Jaya AvendelJanuary 3, 2020

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Graveyard

written by: Jaya Avendel

@AvendelJaya

That frozen November day

When old battlefields come to life

When orange seeps from bones

And tears leak from the eyes

When scorched grass meets

The echo of guns fired long ago

The dead march.

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Jaya Avendel is a writer living in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, where she dips her pen into the inkwell of fantasy and prose, dabbling with the stories in the forest around her. She writes at Nin Chronicles.

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