Memoriam
Memoriam
I was so sad today
to hear of your death.
I thought of it as my breath climbed
this hill and as my gaze filled
with a slice of stone
by the drive side, its face faceted with quartz
like a medal of valor.
I thought of it when I saw limbs caught
in the cruces of other limbs,
trees gathering
their fallen.
I feel sure you believed you would meet her
again,
that you’d gather her up
as when she was small,
that you’d laugh
as when she was almost
a young woman.
I saw you too
in the gatherings of leaves
from last fall,
wondering if I would ever catch their turn
into new earth,
that birth
of what’s left, that rebirth
of what has left.
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11th poem for April; for Hannah’s prompt on Real Toads to write of a walk in nature. Pic is mine as well as poem; all rights reserved.
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April 9, 2016 at 10:57 pm
Very sad, and very beautiful. I do hope the person got to gather her up once again.
April 10, 2016 at 12:38 am
This is so beautifully tragic… truly touched by your verse…!
April 10, 2016 at 1:09 am
I like the progression of this poem through beautiful images…specially the second stanza…
April 10, 2016 at 1:11 am
I love how you use the nature and decay as metaphor.. Hope for a rebirth and that they meet again.
April 10, 2016 at 9:39 am
This is so sad and lovely,
April 10, 2016 at 2:10 pm
Somber…poignantly beautiful…love the faceted quartz…brings light to the sadness. Thank you, K.
April 10, 2016 at 2:13 pm
Thank you, Hannah. k.
April 14, 2016 at 1:45 am
wow, K – sad and beautiful ~
April 14, 2016 at 6:48 am
Thanks, Michael, for this and all your kind comments. And poems! K.
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