Oslo Chair image by Padre’s Ramblings
This Seat Has Been Taken
Has this seat been taken?
May I please take a chair?
Are you sitting alone?
Is anyone else there?
No the seat is vacant,
Its occupant no longer there,
Gone the lively chatter,
Now only their empty chair.
Has this seat been taken?
It seems nobody’s there.
But this seat has been taken,
By the memory of those who care.
Maria Antonia posted a list of 52 prompts for weekly photos for the year. I have tried to link this not just with a picture but with a poem. This weeks prompt is: “Take a seat.”
The photo from Oslo, Norway is of a memorial sculpture in the city’s port. It commemorates the empty places or “seats” left in Norway’s society by the deportation of the Jewish community during the Nazi occupation.
Padre
For a fuller more prosaic discussion of the memorial see: Empty Chairs
Padre's Ramblings 
I find memorials like this one to be very powerful. It humanizes people we don’t know by invoking an everyday object like this empty chair… It makes it more personal somehow.
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That is a brilliant take on the challenge, and on the chair.
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Powerful piece and brilliant take on the prompt.
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A wonderful tribute by you also My Friend!! I loved this and the way Norway honored the missing!! Sad America turned Jewish children away during WWII! Bravo!
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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