Counted Longing

i’d buy yesterday
if I could own your secrets.
today feels empty

  ~ i ~

poetry arrives
when longing needs an outlet.
love clings to verses

~ i ~

love is a mad war
that leaves empty, lost places
tomorrow can’t fill

~ i ~

in the sullen realms
of broken hearts and lost dreams
life roots its rebirth


©Susie Clevenger 2015

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Comments

Rosemary Nissen-Wade said…
Not happy pieces but somehow satisfying. It must be the poetry of them! :)
April 21, 2015 at 8:48 PM
Sherry Blue Sky said…
Beautiful, Susie. Oh, the longing.....
April 21, 2015 at 8:56 PM
Buddah Moskowitz said…
Excellent, quite well written and hard earned.
April 21, 2015 at 10:00 PM
Vandana Sharma said…
I really like the definition of poetry given by you.
April 21, 2015 at 11:28 PM
Jim said…
A very nice foursome, Ssie. They fit together nicely.
For some reason the third senyru is my choice for favorite.
It sounds extremely forlorn to me.
..
April 21, 2015 at 11:55 PM
grapeling said…
poetry does fill some empties, doesn't it?~
April 22, 2015 at 1:57 AM
brudberg said…
Susie.. somehow i think the sadness is what create the beauty.. poetry is about that.
April 22, 2015 at 2:52 AM
Gail said…
Sad and beautiful.

Thanks for visiting.
April 22, 2015 at 8:20 AM
Kerry O'Connor said…
This is a lovely selection of short pieces, Susie. This line will stick with me:
love is a mad war
April 22, 2015 at 11:10 AM
Maude Lynn said…
Beautiful writing, Susie.
April 22, 2015 at 12:18 PM
Anonymous said…
well done, SC!
April 22, 2015 at 3:18 PM
Sanaa Rizvi said…
Melancholy in such beautiful verses...ah the beauty of it! :D
xoxo
April 22, 2015 at 6:40 PM
Hannah said…
This aches of longing and rings of hope...so honest and beautiful, Susie.
April 22, 2015 at 7:10 PM
Jinksy said…
poetry arrives
when longing needs an outlet.
love clings to verses

That is the most beautiful definition of both love, and poetry♥
April 23, 2015 at 3:54 AM
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