Colored glass panes of cerulean, saffron, chartreuse and tyrian purple,
that once cast rainbow flickers across the worn, wooden floors.
Sheets of bubbled, blown glass, foiled and leaded,
formerly tasked with casting luminous jewel-tones across a tiny kitchen table.
Crystalline, elegant flutes tasked with holiday toasts.
Charming, vintage coffee mugs, worn from use,
accustomed to holding a warm, much needed morning shot of energy.
Remnants of a life well-lived, a life once free from hardship and rapt with peace of mind,
lay violently fractured, broken, and scattered in the ruins.
Destructive forces somehow created fragile, miniscule pieces
now unable to be returned to their assigned purpose.
The collection and reassembling of the tiny fragments proceeds at
what can only seem a mind-numbingly slow pace.
Yet, when collected, sorted and polished these broken memories will meld together;
creating a mosaic of variegated brilliance -
A vision of the future, fashioned from the tears of the past.
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Michelle Burgess-Morris spent her childhood between the mountains of Appalachia and the oceans of the Eastern Shore. After 30 years as an educator, she is now pursuing her lifelong dream of becoming a writer. Her poetry has been included in multiple anthologies including Harmonic Verse Poems for the Holidays, Gathering A Poetry Anthology, Poets of the Promise an Anthology of Poetry and The Maryland Bards Poetry Review 2024. The proud mother of three has also published a book of her poetry titled Write Yourself Out of the Nightmare.
that once cast rainbow flickers across the worn, wooden floors.
Sheets of bubbled, blown glass, foiled and leaded,
formerly tasked with casting luminous jewel-tones across a tiny kitchen table.
Crystalline, elegant flutes tasked with holiday toasts.
Charming, vintage coffee mugs, worn from use,
accustomed to holding a warm, much needed morning shot of energy.
Remnants of a life well-lived, a life once free from hardship and rapt with peace of mind,
lay violently fractured, broken, and scattered in the ruins.
Destructive forces somehow created fragile, miniscule pieces
now unable to be returned to their assigned purpose.
The collection and reassembling of the tiny fragments proceeds at
what can only seem a mind-numbingly slow pace.
Yet, when collected, sorted and polished these broken memories will meld together;
creating a mosaic of variegated brilliance -
A vision of the future, fashioned from the tears of the past.
_________________________________________________________________
Michelle Burgess-Morris spent her childhood between the mountains of Appalachia and the oceans of the Eastern Shore. After 30 years as an educator, she is now pursuing her lifelong dream of becoming a writer. Her poetry has been included in multiple anthologies including Harmonic Verse Poems for the Holidays, Gathering A Poetry Anthology, Poets of the Promise an Anthology of Poetry and The Maryland Bards Poetry Review 2024. The proud mother of three has also published a book of her poetry titled Write Yourself Out of the Nightmare.
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