Tag Archives: loss

Bloomed – for Prompt 71 – Why Me?

I bloomed late And rather disconsolate Not inclined To intimacy or to Co-habitate But in those brittle years At any rate I rose my eyes above My fear and gazed I lived apart An owner of a fractured heart Too … Continue reading

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Sheer Futility

Sisyphus had it easy Job security Rolling that rock Up and down that hill Until technology And other ingenuity Found a way to automate Sheer futility Then Sisyphus must Negotiate his lower wage For lesser productivity On history’s page And … Continue reading

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Fifteen minutes – for Speed Challenge, Prompt 70

I followed mindlovemisery’s lead yesterday for the 10 poems in 20 minutes challenge and found it a really mind opening, artistic release. So why not try again, like her, this time with a different time limit? I went for 15 … Continue reading

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Before the Sun

In such races do not run Do not worry little one Deepest dark precedes the sun When you fall and hit the ground Little blood and littler sound Nothing new here to be found Life’s a game, a turn about … Continue reading

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Temporary Rubies

It is said of this river that long ago year It ran red with blood like a mad demon’s tears and the ice from the frost crystallised with the red like temporary rubies everywhere spread Beneath ravaged waters all of … Continue reading

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Vale Robin Williams

They say what we see Of shining stars Is distant death Like light you fell The saddest news We draw our breath From pain is fashioned The purest silk Soliloquy You made them laugh You danced for all The world … Continue reading

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Pure

Half starved lying supine gazing at the iridescent sky May I partake of nature’s cure? Give me succour Make it pure make it pure You said we were just fiddlesticks left out in mid winter rain Each part of a … Continue reading

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This Time for Prompt 64 Ya’aburnee

This time night falls just as a shroud and all the stars here gathered hide behind a cloud burning endlessly You bury me this time This time you hear my brittle voice The illness has its way We have such … Continue reading

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Becomes Me – for Prompt 61 – Toska

Twilight becomes me The purple-black shade of in-between Stars struggle to ignite In an opaque sky Moments before the light Falls as broken wings Years of waiting have become Mere sacred ritual The white, the red, the black I light … Continue reading

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Pieces – for Alzheimers Writing prompt

These pieces are missing These pieces are gone The fondest of memories The dreams dreamt upon They are gone These eyes are so heavy They’re burdened with pain Saying the same things Again and again She’s in pain So lost … Continue reading

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