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Mind Games (reworked)

October 5, 2020 stormwolf Poetry

Can she really be gone? My head says yes but my heart disagrees. She’s there, sitting in her familiar chair waiting. Later, Viewing old Nairn photographs I ask, what is she doing at this time? She’s only ‘up the road’ Perhaps she’s busy, knitting a jumper for school or putting the finishing touches to her wonderful pastry?

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12 comments audio, Grieving loss, mother, reality

Daffodils

April 8, 2020 stormwolf Poetry

In memory of my mother’s passing last spring. “The daffodils are hurting my heart.” They mock my melancholy in their vibrant hues. You loved them so last year. I knew it was coming that time of inner torment when beauty juxtaposed inner suffering… When their message of spring was smothered in me looking at you. How death now bore

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6 comments loss. bereavement, love, mother, spiritual