Senryu Loving each other Sharing our lives together And then you were gone Copyright © 2021 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved
Daily Haiku – Fri. April 2, 2021
Tag: gone
Going, Going, Gone
Going, Going, Gone
Going I’m leaving home I said defiantly when I was four but I stayed Going I’m leaving here I said defensively when I was a teen but I stayed Gone I’m leaving you I said dispassionately when I was married and so I went Copyright © 2021 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved De Jackson (AKA Whimsy Gizmo) is hosting D'Verse Poets Monday Quadrille and has prompted us with "Go" A Quadrille is a poem of exactly 44 words excluding the title. Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay
Gone
Gone
No more black and white
Just shadows of grey
Direction is no longer clear
Since you went away
Numerous times
I question why
You left so suddenly
But never a reply
A ghost like presence
Where you once were
Never again
To darken my door
Your essence everywhere
Woven into my life
Carrying it in my body
Twisting against the knife
Your voice lingering
In the empty room
Not answering my words
Nothing left to exhume
Bravado my new guise
Not wishing to show anguish
Reflexive responses
In my misery I languish
A sense of foreboding
You will never return
Life with you
I will have to unlearn
Christine Bolton – Poetry for Healing ©
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Rendezvous
Rendezvous
Lightly falling rain
soaking her hair
Excited she moved quickly
Anticipating
Feeling the chill
of the night air
Branches hanging low
snagging her dress
Oblivious to the elements
Extremities turning numb
Her zealous thoughts
she could not repress
Sheltering under the trees
he saw her running
toward him
In all her beauty
even disheveled
she was stunning
Facing each other
he was reticent to speak
Holding back his words
reining in his actions
fearing the havoc
he might wreak
Looking into his eyes
she knew it was wrong
Her head lowered
in a shameful repose
She opened her eyes
but he had already gone
Christine Bolton – Poetry for Healing ©
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