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Linda Settles Zebsokey

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Before the Winter's Thaw
by Linda Settles Zebsokey → (All Poetry by Linda Settles Zebsokey)
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Bereavement

Aching void

Missing You

Angry that you left

And yet I knew

You'd soon be gone.

Disease--

It came too soon

And left me empty

Left me numb

Bereft of something

Nameless...

Left me dumb

I rose up from

the ashes,

Smiling--not for me

But for the children

For their need

Sorrows deep --all comfort

spurned

Stirred...sifted...burned

Until the lights went out

And left me staring

in the dark

Wordless...hungry...stark

This icebound world

A lonely mark...

Alone I rise...alone I fall

And wonder that you've left

before the winter's thaw.


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 Reviews of "Before the Winter's Thaw"
Reviewed by Cela Shearer
Reviewed on November 22, 2011
Wow. The pain of abandonment so sharply written.

Reviewed on November 16, 2011
Heart felt writing, Linda; so good to read you again! Well done!

(((HUGS))) and much love, your friend in Texas, Karen Lynn. :)

Reviewed by Susan Smith
Reviewed on November 16, 2011
Such heart felt emotion shared with the human family.

Reviewed by Cryssa C
Reviewed on November 15, 2011
beautiful expression of a tender love and of the journey of one's heart in grief.
Hugs to you,
Cryssa

Reviewed by John Flanagan
Reviewed on November 15, 2011
Tender moving expression, Linda;
finely wrought work.

John


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