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My Phantom Limb

October 15, 2018 by Dale 5 Comments

Broken Tree Limb

A phantom limb I feel your pain gone and dead. I walk with a limp now four years a broken limb ripped from my trunk weathered wormed worn gone and dead. A limb warm still beating and bursting golden into a sky ready to burst with tears still rustling through my fingers. A limb that…

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Filed Under: Ben, Nature, Poetry, Shoots, Writes Tagged With: Ben, death, dog, fall, grief, life, limb, loss, remembrance, tree

Memory’s — — Space

April 25, 2017 by Dale 2 Comments

Ben Urn

Today — — you rest remembered — — in — — a space — — a place of sand — — and ash pawprints — — upon — — an urn a soft spot a safe — — sojourn waiting — — having left — — me listening — — to your memories — —…

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Filed Under: Ben, micropoetry, Poetry, Writes Tagged With: ashes, Ben, dog, grief, loss, Love, mourning, NaPoWriMo2017, remembrance, space, urn

Forest Nocturne

April 17, 2017 by Dale Leave a Comment

Nocturne

an autumn twilight | rains:  forest stars drip leafs upon: broken | hearted pillars of wood: a shipwreck | spears present: in a past — a future parted out of  reach | I mourn | the walk a passage of time | locked away:  in a closet sand in my shoe | pebbles | rock…

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Filed Under: Ben, NaPoWriMo_2017, Poetry Tagged With: Forest, grief, loss, melancholoy, nature, nocture, remembrance

anthropomorphic

April 5, 2017 by Dale 3 Comments

the fog stands wet upon the crumbling cliff reaching for its home the dandelions bend into their wasted selves flagging a season done the fescue weaves the earth into the land setting the dining table the scanning sentinel watches over the world marking life’s moments. I watch the wildness of an island alone dripping hungry…

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Filed Under: Animals, Dogs, NaPoWriMo_2017, Poetry, Travel Tagged With: anthropomorphic, fox, Isle de la Madeleine, Magdalen Islands, Mary Oliver, NaPoWriMo2017, nature, nostalgia, Poetry, remembrance, tame, wild

Possessing Loss: Remembering Ben

October 15, 2015 by Dale 31 Comments

Golden Tree

I’d never realized that loss is such a complicated and nuanced concept. I thought you either had something or you didn’t — that something is either possessed or it is lost. I figured the only complication would be if something is misplaced. But over the last year, I’ve discovered that loss is something that can…

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Filed Under: Ben, Ben, Nature, Shoots, Writes Tagged With: anniversary, Ben, Benjamin, Conroy Pit, dog, fall, grief, Jessica, loss, Photo, remembrance, tree, Yellow

Emotion in Motion ~ Ben’s 19th Birthday

April 26, 2015 by Dale 12 Comments

Scattering

It’s a day I’ve seen sneaking up in my calendar for a month. Days even weeks went by when I didn’t notice it until, again, this week, I was reminded that this Saturday would be April 25th … a day that would have marked Ben’s 19th birthday. This would be the first birthday where Ben…

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Filed Under: Ben, Ben, Shoots, Writes Tagged With: anniversary, ashes, Ben, Birthday, Conroy Pit, dog, emotion, memory, motion, Photo, remembrance, scatter, Weekly Photo Challenge

Fastest and most Expressive Tongue in the West … the East … and Central

January 29, 2015 by Dale 4 Comments

Ben's Dog Tongue

When Ben passed away in October, I was left going through thousands and thousands of photos of him and, in the process, one of the very telling parts of his personality was expressed again and again … and that was the constance of his tongue. It found it’s way into both hearts … and almost…

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Filed Under: Ben, Ben, Dogs, Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged With: Ben, dog, dog kiss, expression, expressive, happy, Photograph, remembrance, tongue, Weekly Photo Challenge

Lost and Found

December 8, 2014 by Dale 7 Comments

Lost and Found3

Lost starving in an iron labyrinth of  kiosks Found darting through the scurry of strange feet Lost to the offer of escape Found staring through the open door Lost your fear Found my playfulness Lost a country Found a home Lost a mother Found resilience Lost your place sleeping at my feet Found your way…

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Filed Under: Ben, Ben, Dogs, Poetry, Shoots, Weekly Photo Challenge, Writes Tagged With: Ben, dog, found, lost, lost and found, Love, not forgotten, Photography, Poem, remembrance, Weekly Photo Challenge

30 Poems in 30 Days – Global Poetry Writing Month (2022)

  • A Love Song

    A Love Song
  • Chosen

    Chosen
  • Wormwood

    Wormwood
  • Bashert

    Bashert
  • Lumber Dog

    Lumber Dog
  • Aisling for the Land

    Aisling for the Land
  • Hard Boiled Boy

    Hard Boiled Boy
  • The Blasted

    The Blasted
  • Sense of Time

    Sense of Time
  • We Reflect

    We Reflect
  • A Family Grown

    A Family Grown
  • Fly — Away

    Fly — Away
  • Curtains

    Curtains
  • A Question Heard

    A Question Heard
  • The Storm

    The Storm
  • A Dis-Ode to the Mushoom

    A Dis-Ode to the Mushoom
  • Bun in the Oven

    Bun in the Oven
  • The world don’t owe you nothing

    The world don’t owe you nothing
  • the syrphid

    the syrphid
  • Osborne

    Osborne
  • Love is not a Word

    Love is not a Word
  • Meta

    Meta
  • Super-Pop

    Super-Pop
  • footprints on the sands of time

    footprints on the sands of time
  • Spring Grows

    Spring Grows
  • Neptune’s Recline

    Neptune’s Recline
  • Red Light, Green Light, Stop

    Red Light, Green Light, Stop
  • Wuthering Heights

    Wuthering Heights
  • Afterwinter

    Afterwinter
  • The Story of a Dog

    The Story of a Dog

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