Poem from Hagar:
Imagination
sparkling gift, wealth of childhood…
it brush-paints long days
pours hourglass full…illusions
spiced honey panacea–
Harsh-edged Time erodes
warps veneer…Reality
bared leaves soul at risk
~H~
Life is short and we never have enough time for gladdening the hearts of those who travel the way with us. Oh, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind.💖
Henri Frederic Amiel
Grief has a flavor…
burnt toast
(burnt everything)
and hostile aftertaste…
crushed by your departure
I’ve no appetite…
even chocolates
taste of ashes–
And mourning has
no sense of time
it resists scheduling
ignores seasons…
within heart perpetual
calendar pages turn, turn
as mourning wears a style
all its own, regardless
of fashion trend…
elaborate sighs of silk
in pale to pewter shadows gray…
that’s what you bequeathed to me–
~ Cale
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It was mutually alluring
the magnetic pull between
film-star handsome
older man, and younger
woman of head-snapping
beauty…
wherever they went people
stared, sometimes with smiles
of subtle envy–
Like soldered hearts
the match continued
through “better or worse”
they clung to each other
when Life’s sands shifted…
happy, content, grateful
in love…
And when Time
took the shine off
youthful good looks
they refused to mourn–
Decades after they’d maried
they laughed…thinking
their age difference
would have raised
eyebrows if reversed…
strangers’ admiring
glances turning aghast
if they mistook her
for his mother ~ Cale
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Poetry ~ Cabbage After Christmas 