Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

the lover

her remorse glimmers gray and pale

a graveyard penance for lost times 

tattered like a ghostly veil

the lover pines 

she bows her head

fragments cut like a crown of thorns

still she holds the memory of the dead

the lover mourns

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I gave it my best effort but I couldn’t get “folk” to fit. Oh well. Thanks for the inspiration Brenda. 

Here’s the Sunday Wordle words: dead pines penance mourns folk glimmer graveyard remorse ghostly fragments lover shadowy

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