Writing group date: 02/16/26

Prompt

Someone brought you flowers.


My Poem

You Brought Me Flowers

The Tuileres once witnessed
Our purple-petal prancing.
Lavender aflutter flew
Among our tipsy toes

Tyler roses twined in poses
While we twinned in elegance.
We knew that we would always dance,
And never dance just once.

Even when I couldn't stand,
Those precious calla lillies
Saw you swaying hand-in-hand
With my heart so willing.

Even when I lost the battle
My love, your orchids did witness bear
To your circle dance, entranced,
As you swirled 'round my cairn.

As I leave Miseria's moans
For freshly-budding shores,
I love you for the dances and for
Bringing me the flowers.

Writing group date: 01/12/26

Prompt

What is an acceptable loss?


My Poem

Acceptable Moss

Stumbling over rotting
Redwood root boles,
Towering elder evergreens
Choking a leaden sky,

Slippery granite slopes of
Chilly northwest dew,
No longer give me pause to
Traverse and bow in honor of you.

Gazing up at stubborn moss
Clinging northward to the bark,
Perhaps today I will finally
Stop wondering,

"Did she cling to his collar as she
Clung to life?
In this mouldy earth does she still
Cling to this realm?"

Gazing up at stubborn moss
Perserverance in green, in the dark,
Perhaps today I will finally
Start letting go.

Perhaps I will
Bow my head, shed a tear,
Turn around, and
Head from here,

Without hating,
Without cleaning off
The moss, ever returning
Above her head.