Ashes (a haiku)
for grandma
they too fade away
reduced to a jar those
eighty-three years
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4 comments
susan
2 Feb, 2007 at 9:41 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
your poem is haunting and profound but in writing it, i think perhaps you have negated the "fading away" for anyone who ever reads this will remember it (and your grandmother)…
in addition, this poem reminds me of the Ball jar that holds my own Grandma's button so now i will oddly think not only of her when i see it, but of your poem as well (ah, the power of the pen
Roswila (a/k/a Patri
3 Feb, 2007 at 3:16 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
The body that was Grandma may have been reduced to ashes, but clearly not her tremendous spirit. I just had an image of 83 years with waves from each second of it rippling outward and forward.
Crafty Green Poet
4 Feb, 2007 at 5:27 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Beautiful and haunting.
Tammy
5 Feb, 2007 at 4:31 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
How very sad but well done.