Syntax for Grief

By EstherLeeDeitch

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{Poetry} We're keepers of each other's stories; you make me real. More

When It's Dark
Haikuish #17: once upon
PIP (Personal Is Political)
Haikuish #27: Truth
Haikuish #26: Sissy fuss
Haikuish #58: diving
Haikuish #21: Give That Woman A Medal
Haikuish #20: wait
Haikuish #19: dangerous
Septembering
If tomorrow never comes, I guess we'll never meet
Beloved Stone
An ABC of Love
Haikuish #18: hope
Haikuish #13: zero
Darkness only wins temporarily (November new moon)
Look Down
You say 'disorder', I say 'order'
Does this poem make my butt look fat?
Unhappy Valentine
Don't care was made to care
Be My Fallentine
Measure of Success
Be Yours
Did you want fries with that?
August But No Wiser
Haikuish #9: Tick tock
Haikuish #6: Eee-ow
Haikuish #7: Vrroom
This Is Mine (1976-?)
Haikuish #10: Yum
I'm Not Writing This Poem (January 2016)
Haikuish #5: Be-leaf
Still No Rain (March 2016)
Haikuish #3: Ka-boom
Road Taken (May 2016)
Haikuish #4: Ker-splat
Can't spring into summer (June 2016)
Haikuish #2: Ba-dum-pum
Why Aren't You Crying?
Haikuish #8: Hum
Age Shout (1962 ...)
Haikuish #11: Ka-pow
Now We Are Six Times Nine
Haikuish #12: broken
Haikuish #22: Friends
Haikuish #14: echo
Haikuish #15: tango
Haikuish #16: question
Freedom's Just Another Word
Haikuish #1: Bada-bling
Haikuish #23: Freak
Heinz 57 (a memoir)
Haikuish #24: prayer
Haikuish #28: econ. No Me
Toil and Trouble
Haikuish #29: Goodbye
Haikuish #25: Help
Haikuish #30: Tear
End note: The meaning of

Waiting For The Next Paradigm Shift

29 9 5
By EstherLeeDeitch

I'm saving my breath
exhausted from
whispering against the gale
told off, medicated, diagnosed
and dismissed
my thoughts are still free
my eyes still see what they see
but my words
have fallen silent
I can't save anything
I can't convince anyone
someday
you may see what I do
differently

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