Loss Quintain (Sicilian) Poems

A familiar dawn of dull and sunless sky
the inconstant rattle of unlocked door, which
plays a backbeat to the buzz of dying fly.
A breath of wind...

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Les Braves

(Iambic Pentameter)

Tan sands conceal deep furrows of their pain,
As churned emotions scream on the light breeze.
The rushing lather bubbles with red stain,
While mortar clouds...

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Reaching out and never being able to find
It can be a completely empty feeling
Going through loss starts a battle in your mind.
They're not coming back,...

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I suppose the fondest memory I have had
Might come from early childhood long ago
A time when I was very sick and felt so bad
I saw...

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Scraps of paper mark his "paper-trail"
thoughts - quick scribbled as they passed
through the misty gate of ageing's veil
cling to a dream that couldn't last
sad ending...

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Love's winds were at their crest
when you lost your job.
We did our part; God did the rest;
then our home was robbed.
The winds blew raw; love...

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It's hard to go day by day, 
Remembering all you had to say; 
I think about you everyday, 
I thought of you teh most today....

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This fruit I plucked, though tightly entwined
(To hide from birds) in a thorny brier vine
I had hoped to pour from a goat hide flask
A sweet...

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