Thanks so much @Stephen Atkinson 🌷🕊️🙏🏻 so much affects our thoughts and lives and as long as we can avoid false affectation it’s something shareable and worth some meditation 🌷🌷🌷

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An excellent affecting piece of writing 👏

Comment is about a widow's lament in an age of no flowers" (blog)

Original item by Red Brick Keshner

Thank you, RBK. Nothing much I can add to the above.

Comment is about a widow's lament in an age of no flowers" (blog)

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Thinking with the beauty of language is most probably the most essential of poetry’s features. Thanks @Stephen Gospage 🌷🕊️🙏🏻

Comment is about a widow's lament in an age of no flowers" (blog)

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The assailing of our rituals of remembrance are curious affairs indeed. Thank you so much @Ghazala Imari 🌷🕊️🙏🏻

Comment is about a widow's lament in an age of no flowers" (blog)

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These verses show what poetry can do, RBK. You make the world stop and think with the beauty of language.

Comment is about a widow's lament in an age of no flowers" (blog)

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Your words cut deep, like winter wind through a graveyard's bare branches. The juxtaposition of personal mourning with historic atrocities creates a haunting resonance, the way private grief mirrors collective erasure.

The final stanza especially lingers, with its cosmic indifference shining down on both the memorialized and the forgotten.

Thank you for this raw, uncomfortable gift that honors the unsung dead even as it questions our rituals of remembrance.

Comment is about a widow's lament in an age of no flowers" (blog)

Original item by Red Brick Keshner