Friday, September 21, 2018

BLACKBIRD


Softly sighs the willow
at the lakeshore
where once I walked with you
so long ago.
You told me then
it once had been
a riverbed;
so many truths
I'd not yet
come to know.

Now desert blooms
between your heart
and mine,
in reverie,
through all the years
of time.
We said goodbye
and left our song
unsung.
Sweet ache,
remembering
when our hearts
were young. 


Sigh. Another one for Shay. So much saudade. Gah! This was the other of my two loves. He was a beauty, with a blackbird heart.  But Pup was my soulmate. He stayed. Also sharing it with the Poetry Pantry at Poets United.





32 comments:

  1. A sad tribute, Sherry. A lament nicely penned. Or 'keyed' like mine?
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  2. This is quite moving Sherry, but only two loves? My list would be very long; Wife, dogs, birds, and all those girls that got away! Then there was my favorite car; a Mini!

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  3. lovely, mi amiga! from your eyes and heart to my soul

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  4. Beautiful, Sherry. I'm so glad the prompt worked so well for you!

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  5. definitely has the ache and yearning here ... :(

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  6. Beautiful indeed Sherry - such are our memories.
    Anna :o]

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  7. May these nice memories of your two loves surround you at times that you need them. There is one old adage - "Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." There is another one -"It is never too late!" (Smiles)

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  8. Oh--that desert that comes when the rivers and blackbirds are gone! Very moving.

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  9. "Sweet ache"...Beautiful but it hurts. Sigh.

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  10. so many truths... yes, bittersweet memory indeed!

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  11. A heartfelt, heart aching, tribute. Thank you for sharing.

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  12. You know how to move your readers Sherry - and that is a good sign!
    "desert blooms
    between your heart
    and mine,
    in reverie,
    through all the years
    of time."
    this reminds me of a very dear friend who died 20 years ago and the distance feels like a desert but I had forgotten that it too blooms - thank you!

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  13. That opening image sets up the mood so well. I love how the piece progresses.

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  14. hurts, but what a beautiful way to put it.

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  15. This is beautifully poignant💜 especially like: "Now desert blooms between your heart
    and mine, in reverie, through all the years
    of time."

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  16. I like the juxtaposition of the willow
    at the lakeshore and the desert blooming between hearts. It makes the poem all the more poignant.

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  17. Lovely--the landscape of life shifting from river to desert to such perfectly sculpted lines.

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  18. I sometimes feel that melancholy of life is something that can fill us with hope... maybe that ache is what makes us alive...

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  19. I like the idea of a desert between us and our lost loved ones. The love is what carves into us and deepen us.

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  20. Oh, the sweet ache of remembering is palpable in your words. Saudade, indeed. I love that you remember him as someone with a "blackbird heart".
    -HA

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  21. A toast to young hearts.
    Thanks for dropping by mu sumi-e Sunday today Sherry

    Happy you dropped by MMT

    Much🎶💛🎶love

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  22. Great memory as I have with my late Cocker, "Bubba"...clearly. besides my family, my best friend.
    ZQ

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  23. I love the blackbird heart. So beautiful and poignant. The desert between your hearts...makes me wonder what happened to this sweet love.

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  24. So much saudade indeed. Love this one too.

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  25. I love this! Rendered with such eloquent simplicity, the 'sweet ache' is palpable ~ sigh ~ an exquisite - utterly linger-worthy - piece of writing.

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  26. A sad tale, a sad song, and yet you never fear to walk alone (all one).

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  27. An unsung song has got to be the saddest song of all.

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