The wall

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It’s not a park as such

Although on a sunny day

You may see many families

Pick-nicking on its tombs

It holds so many famous remains

That it has become 

A favourite destination 

For the tourists visiting Paris

But every year to this day

On the first of May, 

International Labour day,  

A pilgrimage of sort

Happens in one corner

You may see a parade 

Of people with a red rose

In their lapel walking

All united in memory

Of the “communards”

Shot in front of the wall

And thrown in an open pit,

The wall only monument 

To the Commune insurrection 

And you may hear 

An old man saying

"There is a sorrow that lingers in old parks" ,

Looking around wistfully

One amongst the throng

Of the somber celebration.

Lucette C. Bailliet 

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