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Practice Round
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Practice Round

Wish I could
name feelings
tonight--
Happiness,
perhaps
somewhere
far beneath
all this rage,
the anger,
necessary
to a point,
but for
how long
and wide
a path
before
I'm out
of this
field of
nightmares,
playing out
in daylight?
When will
the mourning
reach morning,
the end-product,
a healing potion,
to salve all wounds,
or is this merely,
the practice round
before I'm through?

Grief is like an obstacle course, and I already feel like I've run a practice round in under, around and through this same block!  ---A

 

 

 

 

 


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 Reviews of "Practice Round"
Reviewed by Paul Berube
Reviewed on November 23, 2005
Anne,

Most here probably share that same rope. I've climbed it many times before only to reach the top and have someone tell me to do it over again. Keep praying that one day our goals will not be in vain. Very emotional write.

Reviewed by Chrissy McVay
Reviewed on November 22, 2005
I appreciate the poem on 'struggling' and like the rope-like imagery. Thanks for sharing.


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