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Write about loss. Emotional, material, physical, mental, or any other kind. All forms of poetry welcome.
Ended June 11, 2017 • 5 Entries • Created by Cross
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Cover image for post Da Capo al Fine, by AlSalehi
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AlSalehi in Poetry & Free Verse
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Da Capo al Fine

Not very long

should you sit and cry;

Grieving and asking

the question “Why”?

For when something is born

it’s destined to die,

As every ‘Hello’

has an implied, ‘Goodbye.’

Copyright © 1986-2017

Alan Salé

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contact: AASalehi@gmail.com

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Write about loss. Emotional, material, physical, mental, or any other kind. All forms of poetry welcome.
Cover image for post Meant to Fly, by sandflea68
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sandflea68 in Poetry & Free Verse
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Meant to Fly

Tracing the dotted lines 

     between our love and its existence,

     I cradle your lost smiles tenderly,

     tucking them forever into my heart

Numbness seeps into my soul,

     vacant eyes reflecting my sorrow -

     my empty world paved over and sky

     seeded with visions of better times

I trace your name on a tree trunk

     now stretched way out of my reach.

     Yellowed photos thrown in a box -

     amethyst shadowed flashbacks

I stand screaming at the sky

     flashing our love and its ending

     of crippled wings and stolen soul

     when I was always meant to fly.

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Write about loss. Emotional, material, physical, mental, or any other kind. All forms of poetry welcome.
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Adamotaur in Poetry & Free Verse
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To the One Who Took All My Favourite Things...

I am making a list

By no means exhaustive

Of what you took from me

Not being scared

I miss it the most

If you could find a way

To return that

Please

Feeling that the world

Was a safe place

Where people could be happy

I would like that back

As well

Accepting the touch

Of someone who loved me

Instead of pulling away

In breathless panic

That one was precious

I keep finding more things

Missing

You took everything

Perhaps

And if you don't plan

To return it

Could I just ask you

Please

Was it worth it?

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Write about loss. Emotional, material, physical, mental, or any other kind. All forms of poetry welcome.
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title in Poetry & Free Verse
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