Tag: melancholy

Hidden in Childhood – Now Available on Amazon

by Christine Bolton • February 4, 2023

I am excited to share that I have two poems included in the new Anthology of Poetry called Hidden in Childhood edited by Gabriela Marie Milton. It is available for purchase now on Amazon. Below I am sharing the first poem Case Closed.

Case Closed

You carry melancholy
in a suitcase
full of hope
It is a familiar
travel companion
Hope may find joy
but ultimately it leaves you

Knowing deep
in your soul
pessimism rules
In abandoned dreams
from long ago
is where you
find yourself

The trust in parents
to protect and love
Your well-being discarded
Forgotten
While their emotional wars
are waged relentlessly
You, played like a pawn

Their flawed wisdom
damaging all
Misguided by upbringing
You are what you are taught
A product
of the toxic environment
in which you live

You surrendered
everything for love
and it played on your
vulnerability
for happiness 
The suitcase remains
closed like your heart


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New Beginning – A Haibun

by Christine Bolton • January 7, 2020

I remember writing the D’Verse Haibun a year ago and sharing that January had always been a sad time for me. Each year I was consumed with melancholy and regarded it as a black month.

Little did I now then that 2019 would be one of the worst years of my life. In January within days of writing that Haibun, an MRI on my husband’s brain showed two tumors and he was scheduled for immediate surgery. Thankfully they were removed successfully and not cancerous, but the healing process is long, life changing and precarious. In addition to other existing health issues and the sudden appearance of new ones, we have been on a mind-altering, life changing journey to hell and back.

One year later we are in a better place but still struggling with the process. I am determined to make January a month of new beginnings, change and hope. If you choose to turn off the light, then you will live in the darkness.

Life will always change
Accept it, embrace it and
Never let it go 
 
 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©

Bjorn is hosting the January Haibun at D'Verse and has asked us to
think about new beginnings

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