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I don’t mourn the absences of the dead. I mourn the absences of the living.

GFM The Reticent Writer ©️
2024


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Some pick a Flower
Beauty and Grace
The Flower forgotten
Swimming in putrid vase

Until they grow old
Mind and Face
Then they grab hold
Yet too-late

No visage in town
No trace to be found
No friend is around
Their love has no crown

The Father, The *****
Sheep or Wolf
The Mother, The Captive
Like a Snook, on the hook

The Joker
The *****
The Beauty
The Cage

Are all now exposed
By their fate as they fade

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By the Blaze
The Reticent Writer/
Gina Fornataro Mosher
©️2022

When all has ended.
When all has gone.
Burn that *****!

You know the one.

Her evil exposed.
Her evil undone.
All memory faded.
By the blaze is the rub.

Her smoke for the three.
Her ash for them see?
Their trauma is smudge.
By the blaze is the rub.

From the one that was used.
From the youngest, are you.
The one unprotected.
The one you have bruised.

A faction of vipers.
Of sickness, insane.
You would not imagine the evil they lay.
Through smiles and grooming their base reflects through.

The youngest now older
Will say this for you.

Goodbye to the den.
Goodbye to its mirrors.
Goodbye says the youngest.
Goodbye to its air.

As the fire is started.
In more than the thing.
Her spirit unchained,
the trauma now clean.

No more says the youngest.
No more is her name.
No chaff in her spirit is left for this thing.

By the blaze is the rub.
The rub is now clean.













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I am
Alone
Again

Surrounded by sounds
Human and nature alike
Tinkling rough, yet sweet

I'm in the midst
Filtering out the chaos
Senses on overload

Balance is twisted
Inflicted with suffering
Ugly and painful

Raw and wounded
Tired and lost
Nothingness closer

My mind is a wash





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SHE
SHE
She is invisible. Yet, stands upright. Ignored, disregarded, a spirit run down.

Intelligent as she thinks yet; still forgettable in her pink slings. Not enough. Too much. “Off”.

This is the anger. This is the cry, she screams in the wind, no longer inside. The words, have vanished, the words are gone. She now is screaming without her song.

She makes herself small, a tight little ball.
Yet none are for her. She’s alone at the wall.
They move and they glide and they skip around.
The girl once a mute until silence is gone.

Her quiet, demure, reserved
kind of love, is ripe for the picking and pure as the sun.
The gentle, the sweet, or maybe the heat has made her a mist like the river’s that meet.

Her story a riddle, her spirit quite large, the people confused by the saltage she plods.  
For one maybe two have now turned their heads to look at the girl who once was well “fed”.

The moral, now told is not where you “look”. The moral is where YOU set your own hook.
And now I go to whence I came
Again I'm small I know the game.


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Things are quite often NOT what they seem.
The lady in jeans was just on the scene.
She went before Johnny and found all his bling. When Johnny came home he burst on the scene.

The lady walked by him, and moved to his side. She giggled and smiled until he asked why. Her image a song, her beauty found out, but Johnny just stood there afraid of her pout.

Her dialogue winded, her need still unmet.
He wanted that lady and so the song went.
The lady, the one who had robbed him of thought.

The man, he just stood there and prayed to be “taught”. For when all was done, he caved and took haste. For the lady he wanted was gone without trace.
Up
Up
I am up and I am down
I am topside not underground.


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