Tag: grief

Combined Mass

December 31st, 2016

Combined Mass

by Carmen H Gray

Those tears flowed

They were from the eyes

Of a little girl I knew

I saw glimpses of

Incarnations of You

Folded into my arms

What sorrow’s songs are enacting

Heartstring disarms

Revealing a reflection

Molting, transmuting

An old wound demands recollection

In one form or another

Study it, hold it

Protect it like a mother

Or, like the mother who you had to protect

Release, let go

Put it with the other baggage you’ve checked

All of the combined mass

Of a grief held stationary

Set into motion at last
In The Garden of The Heart

August 7th, 2016

“A fractal is a way of seeing infinity”-Benoit Mandelbrot

In The Garden of the Heart

by Carmen H Gray

I heard the soft sound of those delicate chimes

And suddenly I was there

Those warm springtimes

Walking, walking in my garden fair

The rosemary sticky with its scent

The artemesia silvery and light

No plant I touched was discontent

The proud lavender, standing upright

In that garden, was I there?

Were those days carefree before?

I wondered that as I lay here

Time is a revolving door

Nature’s fractals I have seen

In that garden where I stepped

The leaves outstretched and deeply green

A lovely place where I have wept
Letting Go

July 24th, 2015

“These days, these days
These days I seem to think about
How all the changes came about my ways
And I wonder if I’d see another highway”-Velvet Underground

Letting Go

by Carmen H Gray

Tears

Not just those quiet ones

That slide down your cheeks

Like graceful swans

The powerful, unrestrained ones

That reach far back

Into the deep places

Where you had

Everything tucked safely away

That is the unfettered grief

Beautifully breaking down

And releasing

You

Tag: grief

Combined Mass

In The Garden of The Heart

Letting Go