NaPoMo poem #17 & #17-A
This is a pair of poems I offer for the seventeenth day here in April, in honor of National Poetry Month, as proclaimed by the Academy of American Poets.
These two works, though written separately, have revealed themselves to be joined as bookends of emotion — the piercing ache of separation, and the bittersweet tenderness of eternal longing.
• NOTE: these poems will all essentially be early drafts, so edits may occur after their initial posting.
Gone
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turning to leave
you cover the distance
to the door
in a few heartbroken steps
you look back
I will miss you
in your eyes
you hold my gaze
as if to speak
nothing is said
you lower your eyes
turn your head
step through the door
and are gone
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A Leaf
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sitting
I watch a leaf
fall from a tree
forever parted
the evening light
settles soft on my face
my eyes
fix on the far horizon
a tear
warms my cheek
you have never left my heart
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both poems by: rob kistner © 2009
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