Sara Jama Poet Free verse

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Written on May 9th, 2025 for Constance La France's Write Sixteen Beautiful Lines Poetry Contest "My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart." Maya Angelou

Grief Lives Within Silence

A surrealistic silence hangs sluggishly in the air,
as I sit upon your violet clawfoot recliner,
sorting fuchsia dresses into melancholic piles.
An opal ring glistens while the sun drapes over your portrait,
reflecting splashes of kaleidoscopic colors on barren walls.
Dust cakes the creaking floorboards as I place belongings into cardboard boxes.
A faint lullaby gradually infuses this somber undertaking.
The scent of floral perfume permeates—grief crashes over like cresting waves.
The wind whips outside, rattling the bones of a bitter house,
while a heavy heart sinks, drowning in agonized saline.
Tin plates and yellowed photos decorate mahogany tables
antiquated keepsakes, solidified moments in time.
The cerulean dusk creeps in, and the world softens.
Yet grief cloaks nocturnal restfulness,
as your sentience has been reduced to ash.
Merely confined within an engraved urn.

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Anne-Lise Andresen May 17, 2025 at 8:51 AM - Congratulations on your sixteen beautiful lines poem, Sara :) - hugs Sara Jama May 18, 2025 at 5:47 AM Thank you so much.

Billie Jama May 9, 2025 at 11:46 PM My love, this is achingly beautiful. You’ve captured grief with such vivid imagery~ like that “violet clawfoot recliner” and the “opal ring” catching sunlight. I could feel every moment, every ache in your imagery. “Your sentience has been reduced to ash” will stand with me. You make sorrow feel poetic, and I’m always proud of the way you pen deep emotions into your writing. Sara Jama May 11, 2025 at 10:30 AM Thank you so much my love.

CayCay Godwin May 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM Wonderful imagery set my brain on think and my feelings on feel - everything a well written poem should do, plus move me, that happened, too. I enjoyed deliberately getting lost in the emotions your words painted. CayCay Sara Jama May 11, 2025 at 10:30 AM Thank you for very much for the kind words.