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Category: Loss
Home Archive for category "Loss" (Page 4)

Category: Loss

Broken Things
. Pensive / Loss / Metrical / Rhyme

Broken Things

  She filled her life with broken things, A blender on the blink, A teapot with a little chip, A man who liked to drink, A laptop that was prone …

 Glenn Meisenheimer / heartache / sadness / self defeat
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Intangibility of Resistance
. Restless / Despair / Loss / Prose Poetry

Intangibility of Resistance

     She’s naked, red and blistered; me, too. I ignore silvery flashes in my peripheral vision to scrape drops of water from my fingertips across her cracked lips before the wind …

 alien invasion / apocalypse / futility / William Keller
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After the Tulips
. Pensive / Free Verse / Loss

After the Tulips

Inspired by Sylvia Plath’s “Ariel“ On some nights, black, with a certain kind of envy only the sky understands, these indigo ideas whisper like the dream I had once of …

 empathy / envy / Linda Bullerwell / Sylvia Plath
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Brush Off the Dust
. Pensive / Loss / Metrical / Rhyme

Brush Off the Dust

An open paddock miles from ‘Nowhere’. A picket fence in disrepair. Red dirt road winding through low hills. All around I feel despair. Old slab hut with timbers crumbling, sagging …

 abandoned / anguish / desolate / grave / Maureen Clifford
Continue reading ... "Brush Off the Dust"
Buried Dreams
. Pensive / Loss / Metrical / Rhyme

Buried Dreams

What I Hope In a half forgotten corner of a mind that’s lost its way, is she walking in a meadow, can she smell the new mown hay? Does she …

 aging / dementia / memories / Patricia Curtis
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