Grief/Love

For A … our thoughts are with you.

Grief

with grief comes knowledge

knowledge that you loved; you love

therein lies solace

everything shifts and changes

the constant remains the same

Love

Audio at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSHZEYnnBIw

Published in Strays. Available on Amazon.

Strays is a collection of two extended narratives and more than forty love-themed poems, exploring the meaning of romantic love while we have it and attempting to find the healing after its loss. Found within these pages is the short story Gutter Dog, the novelette Ginni, and the poems False Skin, the Boy Who Wore Clothes, and the Black-Wit Reveller.

Author's Note

We face so many tests of emotion in this existence: passion, grief, shame, anger, hate, and fear. As you get older, you realize most emotions, as intense as they may feel, will eventually fade to nothing. Given time, all emotions fade, all but one… love. But then love is no emotion. I speak not of roses and butterfly flips in the gut, but real immortal love. For even after the form fades away, the love goes nowhere. Underneath it all, that is what we are--love.

Reviews

[John Anderson]

I really really like this one. This is a great one

[Gabby Gellerman]

Very deep and can be interpreted in different ways

[R. L. Hill]

A lot of subtle truth displayed in this poem. It feels spoken like a woman staring at her lover's grave hear these words whispered on the wind to bring her comfort.

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Quirklet. Something like that:)

[Scott Metro]

If I could bottle it...I could make a fortune..!!!
Enjoyed it Pryde.!!

Scott

[Latifa]

nicely penned , great job

[Writer at last! Sky ~]

Love one word to say, one promise to make and one life to make it prove - that I really love someone...Nice Poem!

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, sky fall.

[Writer at last! Sky ~]

Welcome Friend!

[escherflight]

This poem is very evocative for me. When my partner died, 18 years ago, I remember the consolation of this one thought,' our love will always be perfect; no one can take that away from me now, for as long as I live.' I really held on to that through the grief process. I still feel the truth of it now. You capture that thought so succinctly in this piece. Thank you.

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, escherflight. Absolutely … true love has no flaws.

[Jon Roggie]

Well put in both the poem, and the author's note.

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Jon.

[Brittany Zedalis]

There is so much truth in this. I learned this through the loss of my mom and grandma last year.

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Brittany, and I am sorry for your loss.

[Ruth]

Nothing more to say except, yes...insightful piece Pryde x

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Poppy.