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About Love

Posted by MFish Profile 03/07/24 at 11:16PM Share Poetry See more by MFish

This is a reprint of what I wrote to my wife when,
she had been officially diagnosed with Dementia but was
moving towards Alzheimer disease. It continued until she passed,
on December 24, 2023.

Reality

Posted by MFish Profile 03/03/24 at 05:53AM Share Poetry See more by MFish

My fear has been realized.

I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned
With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.

Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you.
Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust.
A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew,
A formula, a phrase remains,—but the best is lost.

The answers quick and keen, the honest look, the laughter, the love,—
They are gone. They are gone to feed the roses. Elegant and curled
Is the blossom. Fragrant is the blossom. I know. But I do not approve.
More precious was the light in your eyes than all the roses in the world.

Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 – 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright. Millay was a renowned social figure and noted feminist in New York City during the Roaring Twenties and beyond. She wrote much of her prose and hackwork verse under the pseudonym Nancy Boyd. Millay won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her poem "Ballad of the Harp-Weaver"; she was the first woman and second person to win the award. In 1943, Millay was awarded the Frost Medal for her lifetime contribution to American poetry.

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MFish • 03/02/2024 at 05:46AM • Like 1 Profile

This moves my Soul. The harsh reality when a loved one passes.

Repost

Posted by MFish Profile 02/25/24 at 09:09AM Share Poetry See more by MFish

Written for my beloved, 01/2018

Hands Again

Posted by MFish Profile 02/23/24 at 07:25PM Share Poetry See more by MFish

A re-issue

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Loy • 02/23/2024 at 08:38PM • Like 1 Profile

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Sipping

Posted by MFish Profile 02/18/24 at 10:12PM Share Poetry See more by MFish

Just plain drinking, 6 years ago

Another Old One

Posted by MFish Profile 02/18/24 at 02:13AM Share Poetry See more by MFish

Written for My Beloved, 6 years ago.

An old friend of mine,
is back on the scene.

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