#napowrimo #poetry
Our (optional) daily prompt. In his poem, “Goodbye,” Geoffrey Brock describes grief in three short stanzas, the second of which is entirely made up of a rhetorical dialogue. Today, write your own meditation on grief. Try using Brock’s form as the “container” for your poem: a few short stanzas, with a middle section in which a question is repeated with different answers
Happy (or at least meaningful writing) Writing!
GRIEF
Grief comes in many forms
and not always for the dead.
It starts off like little acorns,
and grows large with dread.
What could I have done differently?
Now, of course, nothing will alter the past.
What could I have done differently?
I am living in an estrangement made to last.
Mourning the living is harder than the dead.
For the flame of hope will not be put out.
Yet grief settles like a blanket of lead
will nothing bring a change about?
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