Open Link/Broken Link Poem – “Divorce”
After a couple of weeks away from job, time is short, so here is a short, older poem from GOING ON SOMEWHERE (check it out!) posted for dVerse Poets Pub open link night.
Divorce
Starvation for love sands heart to sliver,
my daughter’s cheeks smell of her hours with the sitter:
too sweet.
Let me have a sip–
Tags: Going on Somewhere by Karin Gustafson Diana Barco Jason Martin, iPad art, ManicDDaily poetry, poem about leaving child with babysitter, poem on divorce
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ManicDDaily 
December 6, 2011 at 3:43 pm
The picture and poem have a hummingbird look & feel, a sugar high complementing the sanded low.
December 6, 2011 at 3:51 pm
Succinct, compelling imagery, KG– for me, it would always be a gulp and more and more. xxxj
December 6, 2011 at 4:04 pm
Sad, deep…
December 6, 2011 at 4:25 pm
Ah yes I’ve been there ~ the sadness of it
December 6, 2011 at 4:40 pm
So true, going on somewhere all over, sad state of affairs indeed, bad choice of words, as I’m sure affairs led to many..haha
December 6, 2011 at 4:43 pm
Ha back!
December 6, 2011 at 5:39 pm
Sad and lonely times ~
December 6, 2011 at 5:44 pm
Painful even to imagine. For everyone concerned.
December 6, 2011 at 6:14 pm
Sad write—and a difficult time!
December 6, 2011 at 6:30 pm
goodness..you captured a whole desert in such few words..well done…felt…
December 6, 2011 at 7:44 pm
smiles…the hard of the opening line plays well against the softe of the second half…the love of a child is def sweet though hard to quench the loneliness of the other…
December 6, 2011 at 8:00 pm
uggg! This little write equaled a punch to the gut in the amount of sadness you were able to portray…and in so few words! My mind was flooded with imagery, and my heart hangs heavy.
December 6, 2011 at 8:03 pm
Sometimes the less said, the more felt, as here. A fine one, Karin.
December 6, 2011 at 8:19 pm
Sad…and difficult. Nice write.
December 7, 2011 at 11:22 am
Brave write. Admirable. Should win you friends.
December 7, 2011 at 11:27 am
Ha. Thanks.
December 7, 2011 at 2:02 pm
I like how you blent the sad and the positive, yet used that very happiness to amplify the sadness. Well done in so few lines. Great job. Thanks
December 7, 2011 at 4:03 pm
Oh! this is gut wrenching. Sad, but the prescence of a child is the redemption…especially after divorce.
Powerful poem in so few words.
Lady Nyo
December 7, 2011 at 4:05 pm
very moving piece…saddens.
the bid D sucks…took me a year at least to get over, maybe more.
It still leaves an aftertaste in my memory.
children.
enjoyed your short, piercing poem
December 7, 2011 at 8:35 pm
You painted a mural in less than 25 words. Quite the piece…
Cheers,
Mark Butkus
December 7, 2011 at 9:47 pm
There’s a sadness of a child being left in the care of someone. There’s the feeling of having missing the child and wanting to comfort for both narrator and child. Title suggests a lot of pain. Much portrayed in a few lines. Thanks for sharing this.
December 7, 2011 at 9:53 pm
You know, it’s very interesting. Part of the “too sweetness” I meant referred to the way one’s child literally smells after being in someone else’s home or care. Not bad–but just different than normal–you know with a heavier perfume, perhaps, or a scent of a different kind of cuisine.
Of course, there’s the other sweetness of just the child as well.
I felt like I could make it longer to bring in the specifics of smells, but I didn’t really want to make the poem more wordy. K>
December 8, 2011 at 2:07 pm
apt piece.
well done.