Monday, March 21, 2022

you write your words


on paper

blue-smudged, yellow-curled of verses

lifting us in lark

of fun, light as clouds


months later,

on grieving your leaving,  

we read 

your letter

<dart-folded plane>


we should've been giggling

but your voice cuts

& weighs heavy as stone door 

we cannot close



Posted for dVerse Poets Pub - Quadrille, hosted by De Jackson.  This is a post of 44 words, with the given word, PAPER.   Join us when the pub doors open at 3pm EST.  Thanks for the visits and comments.

25 comments:

  1. Grace, there is OH so aching-much to love about this. The rhythm found in "grieving your leaving," and holy cow, that ...

    Painfully beautiful.

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  2. Such a sad ending.....I treasure the few things that have my mother's handwriting on them. They would mean nothing to anyone else....a small gift tag from a long ago Christmas present, the inside of a little book about Christmas where she wrote her name.

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  3. I can feel the ache in this, Grace. So sad--those found things that do weigh like a stone door.

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  4. The touch of your words is so light but there is such gravity to them here.

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  5. supple ... and lovely, in an aching way

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  6. I can really see this, how those light-hearted notes have lost their lightness after his leaving.

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  7. I love the movement from the lightness of paper to the heaviness of stone - it's very effective.

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  8. A treasured note held down by weight of sorrow...poignantly told, Grace.

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  9. Sometimes the weight of words on the paper can be much heavier than the paper itself!

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  10. wow what an ending powerful stuff.

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  11. The way that words can become weighted. You capture that so well.

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  12. I can feel the paper weight of words where once they flew so free.

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  13. What were once light words now full of heaviness...lovely poetry...

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  14. Oh I feel this! So beautifully done, grace.

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  15. This journey from light to sad is a stunning write.

    Thanks for dropping by to read mine

    Much💜love

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  16. Very very poignant, Grace - you gave me the feels with this piece.

    Sincerely,
    David [ben Alexander]

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  17. Grace, this is such a sad poem .. beautifully crafted. A close friend's daughter committed suicide on January 1. I could not help thinking about all she may have left behind, pieces of her on paper for all of eternity.

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  18. Beauty in sadness, heaviness in light words!

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  19. Beautiful - the sadness of remembering.

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  20. very poignant, you captured the emotions so well!

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  21. Beautifully composed, Grace. From lilting to stone. So sad.

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