List: Love: Loss and Sorrowful Joy

Even in a tearfilled eyes, smiles may shimmer ...

Photo: Myra by Myra -- Silks and Chiffon

• My purple pain

  I love to moon away the day
  with poem and serenade;

  15 lines, 6 comments, on Jan 27 2:20 AM 2002. In Sad
• And then ... my father died

  the rivulet, which gurgled every spring
  my name

  25 lines, 6 comments, on Jan 27 10:49 PM 2002. In Personal, Angst
• Then ... my father died

  And then ... my father died
  

  31 lines, 5 comments, on Jan 28 12:38 AM 2002. In Personal, Angst
• Crippled

  I was crippled by your love
  which taught me to mistrust

  13 lines, 7 comments, on Feb 2 9:09 AM 2002. In Personal, Angst
• Passion Purified

  I wanted to capture your golden words
  toying with verbs and investigating

  23 lines, 7 comments, on Feb 10 10:20 AM 2002. In Personal, Love
• Muted Music

  16 lines, 6 comments, on Feb 17 10:47 AM 2002. In Personal, Love, Angst
• Your Name comes to Me

  (FUN: I wrote this
  when I was 16 years old:

  17 lines, 14 comments, on Feb 17 4:42 PM 2002. In Sad, Personal, Love
• Commère of Truth

  I write a poem in purple mourning;
  There is no greater sorrow

  17 lines, 4 comments, on Feb 21 4:00 AM 2002. In Sad, Love
• Haiku: Captured Birds

  sunlight futilely
  birds in own captivity

  3 lines, 13 comments, on Feb 21 4:17 AM 2002. In Sad, Love, Dark
• Blue Moon

  I saw it when I left ...
  the patio was slippery and wet

  36 lines, 20 comments, on Mar 15 1:00 PM 2002. In Personal, Angst
• Tonight I Shall be Unhappy Forever

  Tonight I need nothing to be happy again
  nothing more than tears blotting

  22 lines, 27 comments, on Mar 30 2:11 AM 2002. In Sad, Personal, Love
• Unspoken Desire ...

  18 lines, 1 comment, on Mar 30 11:31 PM 2002. In Love, Hope
• Vox Humana

  (organ playing in an empty cathedral)
  

  21 lines, 11 comments, on Jul 12 7:58 PM 2002. In Sad, Spiritual, Dark
• Mortal Touch

  human hands
  have built a home

  11 lines, 5 comments, on May 29 12:22 AM 2006. In Spiritual, Nature, Hope
• Winter Moment

  sometimes
  every dream becomes old

  10 lines, 11 comments, on May 29 10:51 PM 2006. In Spiritual, Hope
• In Winter Deserts Waits the Seed of Growth

  in deserts waits the seed of growth
  silently in its solemn bed

  26 lines, 8 comments, on Jun 5 2:58 AM 2006. In Spiritual, Nature, Hope
• You bring to Me your Dying Heart

  27 lines, 5 comments, on Jun 6 3:40 PM 2006. In Personal, Spiritual, Love
• When I close my Eyes

  a
  when I think of you and close my eyes

  78 lines, 5 comments, on Jun 9 6:30 AM 2006. In Personal, Spiritual, Love
• Who-who Eyes of Owls Unwise

  dancing does not dare

  19 lines, 7 comments, on Jun 17 12:46 PM 2006. In Sad, Love, Dark
• Good-bye, Stars

  On my cheeks the stars of sorrow.
  May I please borrow

  13 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 19 3:46 AM 2006. In Sad, Personal, Love
• Cut-glass

  do you remember asking me:
  is there something that a woman needs

  83 lines, 5 comments, on Sep 6 3:40 PM 2006. In Personal, Love
• Anaphylaxis

  you sliced my heart.
  still in anaphylactic shock

  31 lines, 8 comments, on Sep 22 12:47 AM 2006. In Sad, Personal, Love
• And Slow and Sure the Willows Sleep

  And slow and sure the willows sleep;
  a breath amiss in songs that weep.

  21 lines, 13 comments, on Sep 24 12:53 PM 2006. In Contemporary, Collaboration
• Enunciated Heart

  As every morning before

  37 lines, 4 comments, on Sep 25 11:38 AM 2006. In Spiritual, Love
• These Lonely Streets

  17 lines, 12 comments, on Sep 25 1:48 PM 2006. In Sad
• Loneliness: the bare essentials

  19 lines, 8 comments, on Oct 4 7:20 AM 2006. In Sad, Love
• Shades of Blue

  25 lines, 11 comments, on Oct 23 11:37 PM 2006. In Sad, Love, Dark
• Strip Search

  you've lost your shoe

  35 lines, 14 comments, on Oct 24 9:53 AM 2006. In Sad, Dark, Angst
• Who I used to be

  40 lines, 39 comments, on Dec 16 12:35 AM 2006. In Personal, Dark, Spiritual
• Desideratum

  sometimes no one is near
  but red lilies

  46 lines, 12 comments, on Dec 25 11:51 AM 2006. In Sad, Spiritual
• Wax and Wick

  you left me so many times:
  forever you leave me

  72 lines, 5 comments, on Jan 1 1:54 PM 2007. In Acceptance, Personal, Love
• Loss of Loss

  there
  shall come

  58 lines, 14 comments, on Jan 2 1:13 AM 2007. In Form Poetry -- Inspired
• Out

  you cannot read my words
  anymore: neither now nor tomorrow

  41 lines, 18 comments, on Jan 2 4:21 AM 2007
• Answers Unwise

  27 lines, 9 comments, on Jan 3 9:08 AM 2007
• Gift of Shame

  do not disregard shame
  it is an indication

  28 lines, 9 comments, on Jan 23 3:01 AM 2007. In Love, Personal, Sad, Upliftment
• When You Go Away

  For a disillusioned Poet

  40 lines, 13 comments, on Jan 31 9:37 AM 2007. In Thoughts, Sad, Society
• a Cappella

  I sang to you my silent song,
  a Cappella.

  26 lines, 6 comments, on Mar 15 10:10 AM 2007. In Personal, Sad.
• An Itch not to be Reached

  there is an itch
  not to be reached

  38 lines, 9 comments, on Mar 17 7:36 AM 2007. In Society, Change
• Blank Beauty

  a single flower growing there
  in green of heaven's meadows

  8 lines, 11 comments, on Apr 14 2:05 AM 2007. In Personal, Sad, Love
• On My Return

  On my return
  the room has gone to sleep

  26 lines, 23 comments, on Apr 16 12:45 PM 2007. In Personal, Sad, Love
• Arms Remember

  arms remember curves / and chains / as lips remember words / and games / within the residu of marbled kiss / a memory of bliss / / angl

  49 lines, 10 comments, on Apr 27 6:29 PM 2007. In Personal, Hope, Love
• Soft Moon of Frost

  the cold kiss did not stay / it was buried that day / with him / who locked her out / into the snow of night / / let me in my child / no

  25 lines, 14 comments, on Apr 28 11:08 AM 2007. In Personal, Sad, Memories
• White

  white is this moment and white is all peace / sighs of acceptance in gentle release / every small gesture and richess of being / rest insid

  17 lines, 22 comments, on Apr 29 2:03 PM 2007. In Spiritual, Life, Hope
• Fragile, My Broken Sweetness ...

  / / fragile, my broken sweetness / fragile, my fractured hope / fragile, my moment's yearning / fragile, my silken rope / / fragile, my

  21 lines, 15 comments, on Apr 29 2:35 PM 2007. In Personal, Sad, Love.
• Twitters left this Zone of Sound

  sculpt in sound / a wheelbarrow on concrete / trowels scrape plaster / metal-mixed mortar / spade's rough kisses mingle / cement stone and

  29 lines, 4 comments, on May 17 12:58 AM 2007. In Personal, Life, Pain
• Sibilation

  they say i write sorrow / so seamless /

  37 lines, 14 comments, on May 23 1:06 AM 2007. In Personal, Sad.
• curls of calla

  i remember white curves / of calla: / pale hands held yellow candles / in winter's onslaught / golden cores / of gracious guilloche / rattl

  24 lines, 25 comments, on Jun 4 8:14 AM 2007. In Personal, Sad, Spiritual
• silence left me

  silence left me. / see? / silence left me. / what did silence leave me / on leaving me? / eyelids eyebrows and eyes. / see? / silence left

  20 lines, 12 comments, on Jun 5 6:31 AM 2007. In Loss, Love, Personal
• Wrath is a Concrete Path

  there is a street / sans wind or reed / by heavy feet / it's etched / stark winter came / 'gain and again / and cloaked with rain / it said

  37 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 3 10:59 AM 2007. In Sad, Loss
• ... and the missing song ...

  the soul die singing / it is said / of the thornbird / but the rest? / mourning the thorn / in the breast / and the missing song's / tormen

  20 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 3 1:03 PM 2007. In Personal, Sad
• Shudders

  Oh God of our Own / I stand alone

  19 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 9 5:48 AM 2007. In Personal, Sorrow, Spiritual
• Prognosis

  He was given one year to live.

  13 lines, 8 comments, on Jul 29 11:56 PM 2007. In Personal, Pain, Loss, Thoughts.
• Lost and Found

  I was lost in a jungle
  of tar and tires

  18 lines, 11 comments, on Aug 28 3:00 AM 2007. In Personal, Mine, Hope
• Final Kiss

  Sometimes days and nights
  are waiting to become whole

  19 lines, 10 comments, on Sep 1 1:21 AM 2007. In Pain, Personal, Acceptance
• Pasodoble

  Absence
  has become a seventh sense,

  41 lines, 7 comments, on Sep 1 3:35 AM 2007. In Pain, Personal.
• Fledged

  do not mourn a feather lost
  a gift to wandering feet is tossed

  27 lines, 6 comments, on Sep 4 4:03 AM 2007. In Personal, Hope
• Behind a Door in Garden Wall

  behind the door in garden wall
  there waits a girl with silken scroll

  24 lines, 12 comments, on Sep 7 12:44 AM 2007. In Narrative, Dark, Love
• Night's Good Angel

  it is night
  and slightly solemn

  24 lines, 2 comments, on Sep 10 6:29 PM 2007. In Personal, Sad
• It Ruins a River

  it spurts a river
  a river it runs

  16 lines, 2 comments, on Sep 11 1:28 AM 2007. In Personal, Sad
• Love's Death

  You caused distance
  between us

  32 lines, 6 comments, on Sep 12 3:06 AM 2007. In Distance, Love.
• Gift

  I am given a gift:
  it is the gift of sorrow

  36 lines, 5 comments, on Sep 13 12:52 AM 2007. In Personal, Sad
• Thy Faire Eyes, Sweet Magdalen

  Alone within storm and sorrow cladeth
  Thy faire eyes, sweet Magdalen!

  29 lines, 5 comments, on Sep 15 1:54 AM 2007. In Sorrow, Spiritual, Narrative, Metaphysical
• Sea Star's Eternal Song

  Only the Sea-winds Speak
  Humiliated, I see my fragile worth,

  34 lines, 2 comments, on Sep 19 7:32 AM 2007. In Love, Pain, Loss, Hope
• Lament

  Ah ... bitter-sweet this cup held to reluctant lips ...

  24 lines, 7 comments, on Sep 20 1:51 PM 2007. In Love, Pain, Society
• Diamonds and Gold

  she left the part of him
  which didn't love

  26 lines, 5 comments, on Oct 5 2:32 AM 2007. In Love, Romantic, Loss
• Sorrow's Hopeful Furrow

  Missing you ... and heartbeat starts to bleed
  its gaping wound, filling a well of sorrow.

  7 lines, 3 comments, on Oct 5 3:55 AM 2007. In Love, Sad, Life, Hope
• Calico Curtains

  I had a dream of you. Terminal, but drenched in warmth
  and light, waiting upon your bed for death to come --

  26 lines, 10 comments, on Oct 8 11:04 PM 2007. In Personal, Love
• Surge

  rain falls sated
  on thee days' wet

  48 lines, 9 comments, on Nov 25 10:22 PM 2007
• 19:00

  layer by layer in twilight
  night over mountains

  36 lines, 7 comments, on Jan 4 1:08 PM 2008. In Free-verse, Contemporary
• Ritual

  it is round
  round and round and round

  93 lines, 4 comments, on Jan 6 6:02 AM 2008. In Love, Sad, Loss
• Framed

  I was framed by sparkling stars at night
  alone in mists of vague design

  15 lines, 8 comments, on Jan 12 8:56 AM 2008. In Loss, Love, Release
• Shibboleth

  I am tired of time worn fad words
  like tattered

  19 lines, 4 comments, on Jan 13 12:20 AM 2008. In Personal, Love, Loss
• Shudder of Spring

  from all niches comes spring
  and fork options

  23 lines, 5 comments, on Jan 18 1:44 AM 2008. In Personal, Sad, Introspective
• It was Only a Kiss

  I was born into a world so cold
  I was standing all alone

  45 lines, 14 comments, on Jan 27 5:18 AM 2008. In Sorrow, Lyrics, Love, Life
• Oh Garden Flooded by Sorrow!

  muted sweet memories
  bluebells of loss

  24 lines, 5 comments, on Jan 27 9:38 AM 2008. In Sad, Nature, Wordplay
• Love is in every molecule

  love is in every molecule
  it breathes itself

  25 lines, 4 comments, on Feb 4 11:01 PM 2008. In Pain, Personal, Love, Life, Growth
• Monochrome

  blind eyes
  Love's Light

  11 lines, 4 comments, on Feb 5 11:38 AM 2008. In Personal, Love, Hope
• Reënkorrels

  reën giet doplose korrels
  van pers hemele

  35 lines, 1 comment, on Feb 6 4:58 AM 2008. In Persoonlik, Verlies
• Sorrowful Joy

  A lone robot,
  after searching deserts,

  22 lines, 8 comments, on Feb 11 11:38 PM 2008. In Society, Love, Spiritual, Personal, Sorrow
• Morning Meditations

  pain's taints
  blot

  23 lines, 2 comments, on Feb 18 12:59 AM 2008. In Personal, Sad, Thoughts
• Of Silence and of Saints

  you utter no words
  but vulnerable

  19 lines, 6 comments, on Feb 18 1:20 AM 2008. In Love, Spiritual, Personal
• Inside Factor

  Neither Christian Dior, nor Givenchy,
  can define the self, when the I slip away

  47 lines, 16 comments, on Feb 18 2:20 AM 2008. In Society, Spiritual, Healing
• Reminder

  there is no treasure in the measure of sorrow

  6 lines, 18 comments, on Mar 17 5:13 AM 2008. In Love, Society, Spiritual, Loss, Gain
• Room of Naught

  there are wounds in our wonder
  there is wonder in our wounds

  56 lines, 6 comments, on Mar 18 4:27 PM 2008. In Love, Creativ, Room
• I Looked into my Heart to Write

  I looked into my heart to write 7
  a touch of cold in the autumn night; 1

  24 lines, 10 comments, on Mar 19 2:34 PM 2008. In Melancholy, Life, Creative, Index Lines
• Oh Smirk

  the frozen part
  of heart may be a star

  22 lines, 5 comments, on Mar 20 1:20 AM 2008. In Dark, Sad, Hope
• A Dove Freed in Eternal Dive

  I looked into my heart to write,
  to find solace in soul's bright of light;

  16 lines, 6 comments, on Mar 20 4:15 AM 2008. In Personal, Pain, Love, Hope
• Chromatic Aromatics

  sorrow is a crying clown strung to Life's

  8 lines, 3 comments, on Mar 20 11:39 PM 2008. In Love, Sad
• When You Started to Repeat ...

  when you started to repeat to me
  stories you have told before

  23 lines, 6 comments, on Mar 21 10:59 AM 2008. In Sorrow, Sad, Loss, Love
• Fifteen Lines of Persuasion

  write to me of beauty
  for my heart is squashed

  25 lines, 14 comments, on Mar 22 12:29 AM 2008. In Sadness, Love, Loss
• Chill

  log-cabin of dreams
  death valley

  23 lines, 7 comments, on Mar 22 2:29 AM 2008. In Loss, Sad, Love
• Senryu: Sorrow

  love, whisper to me
  summer sunsets to hold me

  23 lines, 7 comments, on Mar 23 2:20 PM 2008. In Love, Sorrow
• Silver Roses at Dawn

  Blanched by heartbreak,
  a dove-gray dawn dribbles its pewter

  16 lines, 8 comments, on Mar 26 10:23 PM 2008. In Personal, Pain, Spiritual
• You have killed Yourself

  you have killed yourself
  by putting swords

  23 lines, 4 comments, on Mar 27 11:46 PM 2008. In Love, Sad, Loss
• :o

  oh? yes!
  take the lead

  42 lines, 8 comments, on Mar 28 12:10 AM 2008. In Endurance, Life, Perspective, Awe
• Sometimes Sorrow is a Snail

  sometimes sorrow is a snail
  soft inside the spiral of shell

  20 lines, 6 comments, on Mar 31 3:42 AM 2008. In Sorrow, Society, Core, Spiritual
• He Kissed Lucille

  In retrospect the dream was real,
  futile the hope, deep the despair:

  8 lines, 5 comments, on Mar 31 6:33 PM 2008. In Love, Loss, Humor
• Of loss of loss of loss

  loss came to us like a train
  trucked in compartments

  28 lines, 10 comments, on Apr 4 11:13 AM 2008. In Loss, Personal, Sorrow
• Of Loss you Spoke

  Of loss you spoke -- and how it froze;
  Of love that changed, from sun to snow,

  24 lines, 9 comments, on Apr 5 8:40 AM 2008. In Love, Sad, Change.
• You are with Me, with Me and inside Him

  You are with me, with me and inside Him
  You are with me, inside where you belong

  26 lines, 4 comments, on Apr 5 10:53 PM 2008. In Love, Loss, Upliftment, Spiritual
• Wayward Weave

  I was once held
  in your teacup of dreams

  35 lines, 7 comments, on May 4 1:03 AM 2008. In Sad, Dark, Creative
• Devil ... I said ... Coward

  words tumbled from my fingertips:
  devil i said coward

  7 lines, 60 comments, on May 12 8:19 AM 2008. In Sad, Personal.
• Sun-struck

  Sorrow has a way to stay ...
  no matter how bright the sunshine,

  15 lines, 8 comments, on May 13 11:14 AM 2008. In Personal, Pain, Hope
• Torn Placenta

  in rubble
  i slide face-down

  22 lines, 10 comments, on Jun 4 4:30 AM 2008. In Sorrow, Rejection, Love
• Innocence Nuditas

  gentleness has been the token
  of my femininity

  18 lines, 22 comments, on Jun 7 7:30 AM 2008. In Sorrow, Spiritual, Personal
• Bleed

  oh heart so long apart
  from he who heals the shards

  9 lines, 7 comments, on Jun 20 2:50 AM 2008. In Sorrow, Personal
• Deceit

  Oh Love, you've cheated, you with evil deed,
  feed hearts of dark by messenger, the crow.

  17 lines, 13 comments, on Jul 1 1:58 PM 2008. In Love, Deceit
• Colours

  Colors present themselves
  in international terms:

  23 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 5 2:07 AM 2008. In Beauty, Sorrow, Awe
• In Every Room Your Name Is Etched

  in every room your name is etched
  on walls on ceilings and on beds

  31 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 10 11:42 AM 2008. In Personal, Love
• Let Beauty Sleep

  Beauty does not always dwell in brilliance. for it may be plucked prematurely; before stars may sprout on tendrils of eyes reaching for hea

  8 lines, 7 comments, on Jul 22 5:22 AM 2008. In Sorrow, Society, Spiritual, Loss
• When Kissed by Breeze

  a lily sweet on tender stem
  was found by breeze on river's hem

  11 lines, 7 comments, on Jul 25 10:53 AM 2008. In Love, Sad, Mistrust
• Butterfly Wreathe

  beautiful shades make imprints
  and spaces

  23 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 25 11:45 AM 2008. In Love, Sorrow, Nature, Loss
• Night

  night
  as tight as a stone

  26 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 25 12:19 PM 2008. In Personal, Pain, Hope
• Day

  Night drowned in a well
  called endless

  34 lines, 8 comments, on Jul 25 12:37 PM 2008. In Personal, Strife, Life, Hope, Spiritual
• Accomplished

  The tremble was shallow. Barely perceptible. Just a shiver of slight life, a pulse not able to pump the blood in transparent veins, or to l

  11 lines, 15 comments, on Aug 25 8:02 AM 2008. In Personal, Gain in Loss, Spirtual Beauty
• My Autumn Heart

  To breathe in love the silent air
  that carries dreams of night's despair;

  16 lines, 10 comments, on Sep 1 4:22 AM 2008. In Sonnet, Love, Loss
• Love's Patient Potency

  You ask about resolution, friend.
  How the fragile flower

  29 lines, 7 comments, on Sep 22 2:01 AM 2008. In Love, Society, Therapy, Spiritual
• Ain't Gonna Need this House no Longer

  Housed in his Heart so safely
  held by his peace Above

  20 lines, 15 comments, on Sep 24 10:27 AM 2008. In Love, Upliftment, Hope
• Asylum of your Eyes

  Mother
  your absence filled my entire world

  44 lines, 11 comments, on Sep 30 3:20 PM 2008. In Mother, Manic Depression, Sorrow, Personal
• Roaming Song of Spring

  You are with me ...

  21 lines, 9 comments, on Oct 6 7:02 AM 2008. In Love, Endless, Absence, Spiritual
• Unusual Ending -- a Victory for Love

  Reason for divorce?
  

  12 lines, 16 comments, on Oct 11 11:13 AM 2008. In Sorrow, Personal, Divorce.
• To Dance Away the Pain of Dread

  to dance away the pain of dread
  firstly you must get ready set

  44 lines, 5 comments, on Nov 14 8:25 PM 2008. In Spiritual, Hope, Loss
• Burnt Angels

  Tested by fire
  four burnt angels

  21 lines, 30 comments, on Dec 2 10:57 PM 2008. In Spiritual, Personal, Loss, Agony
• Flute and Flounce

  Time
  -- irreversible --

  34 lines, 24 comments, on Jan 18 12:00 PM. In Nature, Nostalgia, Thoughts, Personal
• Mortal Moments

  Mortal moments slip by:
  some filled with unnecessary jargon

  23 lines, 9 comments, on Jan 23 12:26 AM. In Love, Society, Inspiration
• Twilight's Tear

  9 lines, 11 comments, on Jan 27 3:35 AM. In Memories, Love, Life, Melancholy, Form Poetry, Contest
• Bird in Distress

  life --
  with its clouds of confusion

  13 lines, 4 comments, on Apr 27 2:46 AM. In Love, Upliftment, Healing
• Process

  First it was subtle: just the prick of irritation
  in conversation or a freezing tone,

  22 lines, 7 comments, on Apr 27 3:20 AM. In Love, Loss, Acceptance
• When You Go Away

  when you go away
  there are no ponds flying

  32 lines, 4 comments, on Apr 30 3:46 PM. In Loss, Sadness
• Bouquet of Love

  there comes a chill in tender hearts
  when memories are shred to shards

  19 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 5 3:49 AM. In Love, Loss, Hope, Friendship, Solace
• Thorn-bird

  16 lines, 3 comments, on Sep 5 11:34 AM. In Loss, Leaving, Personal
• Give Sorrow its Song (Pantoum)

  garlands of gold against silver white sorrow
  memories woven in broken laurette

  14 lines, 9 comments, on Sep 10 10:56 AM. In Personal, Sorrow, Song, Pantoum
• Salvo of Sorrow

  14 lines, 3 comments, on Sep 21 11:12 AM. In Love, Loss, Salvo of Sorrow
• Choke

  the stroke came without any warning:
  leaving me waking

  24 lines, on Oct 3 12:09 AM. In Deafness, Feelings, Personal

• By me, right now

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