Poem of the Week: Lydia (1761)

Margaret Leis Hanna, Central Ohio Branch
Written after reading the historical novel, Widow’s War, by Sally Gunning

 

She walks the shore

Stripped of her husband
she searches
solace on sand.

Breathes salt air
Where
Water suffocated him.

Arms across
hollow heart
she suffers the unwanted.

As waves before her
Love and loss
Ebb and flow

As limitless horizons
Anger and grief
Stretch through her

As moonlight on stilled seas
Calmness and acceptance
Cloak her.

Love brings her
Weeping and walking
Where water widowed her.

 

 

6 comments

  1. cheri warzecha says:

    I love the concept and the emotion of her walk.
    could be more rhythmic if words in each stanza were
    rearranged and more attention was paid to meter.

    Keep writing!

    Cheri

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