Thank you for that, Kiya - it's not many brave the wilds of my portfolio to discover my little 8-line poems, so it's wonderful to have some feedback on them. Much appreciated!
Wonderful poem that links footprints to bits and pieces of our memories over the years.
As we get older, we do leave a mark behind - footprints if you will - and even as they fade away, they'll always linger and be a reminder of what we once were.
Thanks for sharing this poignant piece with us, and keep on writing!
There’s a reason they talk of the curlew’s call
in broad flat sea marshes in the mists of dawn
where the cold lingers in muddy backwaters
and the soul can be alone as never before.
It’s a sound that speaks of vast emptiness
that wraps us in the fog of separation from kin
and calls forth a spectre of bleak nostalgia
so much more than Hepburn’s “The loons, the loons.”
Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 03.23.24
Prompt: Choose a word or two from one of the three poems and write a poem around it. I chose the word “curlew” from Longfellow’s The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls.
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