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Sensing Sorrow by Sandra Nelms-Ludwig
Poem of the Month contest entry

 

Bittersweet memories…………………………………….

traipse through telling lyrics and melodies of shared special songs.

waft from the aroma of homemade baked yeast rolls or homegrown peaches layered beneath a golden crusted cobbler.

peer from still snapshots capturing familial life now snugly placed under plastic sheeted album pages.

taste like cascading salty tears pooling in the corners of downturned lips

mixing with peppermint flavored Burt's Bees lip balm.

recall warmth of encircling arms and feathery light kisses before bedtime and most daily departures.  

                                  ***************************************

Bittersweet memories, love remnants of a life once lived but now gone.

 


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Author Notes
This is a poem of pleasant memories, but as we all know grief may also be a list of tragic memories. Grief is a messy business.

     

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