Friday, March 31, 2023

 

Haiku Friday: Grief

 



I am feeling grief right now, and most of you have at some time, too. We might as well haiku about it, right?
 
Here, I will go first:
 
It comes on cat feet
And stares at me, expectant
It can be so still.
 
[Carl Sandburg described fog as coming "on little cat feet." That, I think, was a poem about grief, so I started there]
 
Now it is your turn! Just use the 5/7/5 syllable formula and your heart. 

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Lore says Cardinals
are angels... it comforts my
mind... always near me
 
Everything changes,
And in the blink of an eye,
Life is different.
 
There’s now a hole in
Christmas. Never to be filled.
Felt keenly, sharply.

 
Grief

The waves keep crashing
Sometimes with astounding strength
Or with sacred pain

 
Say her name and I
Cry. Fifty six years of grief.
Loss so raw, profound.
 
A year to the date
She bid farewell and left us
A slipstream of love
 
A deer stops in the
road and you know--you just know
it's her. It is her.

--Megan Willome
 
Grief is never past;
we accept their absence to
continue forward

but never fully
internalize the fact that
they have departed,

that they have left us.
"Father would find this funny..
Mom would love this child."

Hold onto the grief
so that as we move forward,
they remain with us.

 
All the memories
Come crashing to the surface
Of a life well-lived
 
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