Write a poem about something ending. It could be a relationship, a stage in life, or the apocalypse. The details are up to you.   And so this is how it ends The discomfort, the fake smiles, the awkward conversation Or lack of The words…

Goodbye my love, and farewell I love you, I really do, I rest easy knowing that’s true But it was not meant to be Our fates took you far from me I love you, I really do, But thanks to time, cruel mistress, I am…

A man stood beneath the tree, Waiting it seemed, for me His gaze was soft as diamond His mood as light as iron He had been waiting for me But why beneath this tree?   This tree was like most around it Red leaves and…

We have a chronic case of Right place, wrong time. Spending 12 years just missing each other. Just missing each other at the store, The bars downtown, The bed we used to share. Holding tight to the two years we got together.   I get…

What can you do when there is no farewell? The opportunity lost, slipped away with the  Hustle and bustle and musts A final box packed and placed on the truck And then on to the next But the past not forgot   Within the walls,…

Endings. Peace and quiet. They’re anything but, The raging storm that breaks through a ship. They’re the grand culmination that completes your journey. I would be lying if I ever dared to say to you that, I hate them with my whole heart. I adore…

Here’s to getting that last bit About how we were the better men Losing not to the dark swell Of hate and fear But to the shining goal of being right Even if we were wrong all along We were right in our persistent notion…

Struggling (prompt 1) ~   My beloved struggles hourly, his life parsed laboured breath by laboured breath. I listen/don’t listen, struggling myself wondering how long how long how long Like a heartbeat I hear it, the refrain: how long        how long        how long 3…

(for hour 1—something ending)   So Small   Too fragile Too soon Softness without structure enough With hollow hope With imperfect sigh Too small To inflict such sorrow

Happily-ever-after mythology only prefacing the sequel continuing the saga tacking on the index onto volume one having read this scene from life movies writing, rewriting the books playing déjà vu-all-over-again never more than countless times here-we-go-again monotony of changing times same cast of characters different…