General Poetry posted December 15, 2022


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When a poet dies

by kiwisteveh

 
 
When a poet dies

words go into mourning;

a flock of lonely birds crying against empty sky.


As this soul passes,

great forests tremble,

troubled by a sudden emptiness of heart and spirit.


The roiling sea falls still,

turns in upon itself

and sighs its grief, a world-has-ended sigh.


Our once chattering lives

now hang silent,

bereft of speech, de-tongued by tragedy.


The heavens alone rejoice.

They celebrate this death

as the joy-filled birth of an angel of light.
 

 

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