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Lace hankie tucked inside her jacket sleeve
Hard candy filled the tin beside Mom’s purse
Gray mournings, nature’s gifts for those who grieve
At times when it seems nothing could be worse

So many dresses filled her closet space
And most of them I’d sewn by hand for her
I folded...

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Categories: mournings, grief,
Form: Sonnet
Monday Mournings
Monday Mourning’s

I woke up one Monday morning
And now I wish I stayed in bed
Because I was kind of crabby
And I regret the things I said
I’m really not quite sure
What I even said that day
But I know that I will never
Talk to anyone that way
I should...

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Categories: mournings, lost love
Form: Rhyme
Epiphany
Reflecting its neighbourhood,
The lake water shone yellow.
Resembling a synchronisation of saturation 
With the setting sun.
Seizing green colour of the grasses 
The sun painted them gold.

Engrossed gazing pines dance spectacularly,
Only awakened with sparrows' chirps,
And Robins' melodious songs.
Perched on the edge of a dead tree,
Abrupt thoughts hovered...

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Categories: mournings, age, death, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse

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