Brutal Mercy
I laid down with you warm in my arms you as big as a colt still possessed of a steed’s mature grace unaware of the grief in my desperate embrace nose to nuzzling nose loyal lush-as-mink fur to my...
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“Field of Queen Anne’s Lace” Painting by Barbara Pirkle From paintingsilove.com distance spilled from the sky onto pastures of mourning white lace umbels caught up in the wavewash of grief inflorescent...
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“Two Empty Chairs” Painting by Natalie Ryde From pinterest.com old griefs return amid mirth and wine tables laid for the sumptuous feasts of November December where vacancies gather to celebrate...
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Dawn LIght Photo from 3lian.com unravel the light pull on threads straggling down from the loose dawning skeins of the sun weave a garment to costume the dolor of waking alone before facing the...
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“Mountain Graveyard” Painting by Kurt Schwitters From wikiart.org sleep neath the seasons mute reversal of heartbeats keeps grief in the airFiled under: Haiku, POETRY
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“The Grief of the Artist” Painting by Ivan Shikerov From pixels.com time hurts beyond rotting bones and wasting muscles pain throbbing in absence in loss occasions of grief arriving at exponent...
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“Absence and Return”Painting by Sharon CummingsFrom fineartamerica.com memories gather at holiday tables on empty chairsFiled under: Haiku, POETRY
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“Grief” by Vrindavan Das empty spaces in places where laughter and life never needed much thought blood and bone disaffected abandoned to deep metaphysical wounds of fierce absence we miss them the...
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“Grief” by Vrindavan Das a presence of absence exists in the waiting a thing of departure that lives within hope in the ache for return a thing solid and stout as the summer tree felled for the...
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“Vanishing Point” by Michael Lang news of death unexpected a colleague from heydays a merciless storm of old memories lashes the mind heaving clouds come to clash with a violence that bleakens the...
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