Sunday, November 8, 2015

Still Life




Still Life

Poppies bloom in fields
Memorializing scores of
Buds never blossomed







35 comments:

  1. Hi Theresa ... such a wonderful evocative post for this Remembrance time. Love the two art works you've used ... Hilary

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  2. lovely and poignant poem of remembrance.

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  3. Those lost and those never born! Beautiful!

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  4. I like the pictures, especially the first one; the line about buds that never blossomed is sad, because it made me think about all the things that could have been.

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    1. I know. Broken chains, and we can't possibly know all that was lost.

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  5. Totally moving, Theresa. Thank you so much for sharing this with your readers. Hope your teaching position is going well.

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    1. I love poppies as a reminder. Symbolic in so many ways.

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  7. Beautiful words and pictures! :)
    ~Jess

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