This is absolutely beautiful, Tom. I have had every one of these feelings but do not have the experience in poetry to put it all into words. This line stands out to me -
"Their absence shaped me as surely as their presence,
their love never truly gone, just transformed."
Brilliant.
And the very first line "I catch myself in silver glass, not searching for lost youth"
I can tell. You wrote about so many feelings I have had; I just haven’t been able to put them into words. I think that’s a critical ability of a writer: to be able to identify and read within oneself what one is feeling/thinking. I am learning to tune into that. A masterpiece of a poem.
This is absolutely beautiful, Tom. I have had every one of these feelings but do not have the experience in poetry to put it all into words. This line stands out to me -
"Their absence shaped me as surely as their presence,
their love never truly gone, just transformed."
Brilliant.
And the very first line "I catch myself in silver glass, not searching for lost youth"
Amazing.
Thank you Laney. All my own feelings go into any poem I write.
I can tell. You wrote about so many feelings I have had; I just haven’t been able to put them into words. I think that’s a critical ability of a writer: to be able to identify and read within oneself what one is feeling/thinking. I am learning to tune into that. A masterpiece of a poem.