Post

There was a word I was looking for earlier, you found yearning - I wish I had, it speaks so well. Great poem as always. Please do some more workshops!

This takes me back to my childhood when my complaints during the summer months were sunburns and boredom. Now it's about the paycheck. 😅

Yes, this bleak exploration of the universally personal is outstanding!

Oh this ending is so so beautiful!

Such a profound sense of loss and change

Spot on! This is where I am at the moment - the teacher’s lament! 😂 I love the line about thinking it was forever - that’s so true - even now! 👏

Yes. Perfectly captured, Mike.

The ending is spare and effective: “yearning” is left almost alone, allowing the emotional weight of everything that has ended to remain unresolved.

Perfect!

Deliciously bleak, but rooted in what is eminently relatable and universal. 🙏🌠

So evocative.