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Tag Archives: death
The Doldrums
Now to the Doldrums we have come, our sails gone limp, weighed down and still, and not a breath of wind is left to draw from old Poseidon’s lungs. The brackish air insults what brawn we strain to heave against … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance, death, doldrums, entropy, momentum, nothingness, stagnation, stillness
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A Tree in Winter
When in the winter, I shall stand a bare tree tall on frozen land there may be some who choose to rake among the leaves left in my wake and into separate piles by hue divide these skeletons. But who … Continue reading
Untitled Sonnet
If I never saw another morning sky nor waked to hear the sparrows on the lawn, if roses gave no scent when I walked by and all the butterflies were dead and gone, there still would be their memory in … Continue reading
Losing a Good Friend
I found I knew you, and then you were gone; they seem too brief, the paths that we wandered, and though in my memory you live on it feels like so many days were squandered. The things that I should … Continue reading
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Tagged daily poems, death, friendship, loss, poetry by request, sonnet
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Cancer
There are times when new growth is a bad thing. When that dark shadow creeps into your life, touching healthy cells with its withering hand, defying the surgeon’s careful knife as it gains momentum and saps your strength, the possibility … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance, cancer, daily poems, death, poetry by request, sonnet
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Resistance
If there is a principle in my life that stands behind any visible act or serves to motivate in times of strife, it is this very simple and small fact: I have been given many things to keep, some of … Continue reading
Death and Kindness
… so now, after seven years of bad luck – after that sudden crippling twist of fate, when all the shit he threw just turned to muck, just when you thought things weren’t going so great in a second or … Continue reading