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Happy JUNE! It’s the first of the month and you know what that means! Word Crafters, choose your own syllabic poetry form, theme, words, images, etc. It’s up to you! This opportunity only happens once a month!
I really just wanted to tell a tale. So I really am not sure if this poem is even allowed. I told it all the same.
Light and dusk
Golden light fractals through the leaves.
Dark brown, of strong Oak woven in the trees.
Motes of dust dancing in and out,
squirrels collecting nuts, in a hurry here about!
As she lays there among the leaves,
not missed yet, so far no one grieves.
Dearest Teddy by her side
She only dropped him when she died.
She is tiny, she is small,
Oh! dear God she has hardly lived at all.
Like an angel lying there
with tiny insects running through her hair.
Shafts of dying daylight frame her face,
of her killer there is no trace.
Silent leaves begin to fall
slowly slowly they cover all……………
willowdot21 
Jun 01, 2021 @ 16:21:35
It’s a wonderful poem.
Jun 01, 2021 @ 17:07:11
Thank you so much 💜
Jun 01, 2021 @ 18:07:47
I think you told a tale well, Sis! 💜
Jun 01, 2021 @ 17:39:47
Thank you a sad one , but it happens 💜💜
Jun 01, 2021 @ 22:50:45
🤗💜
Jun 01, 2021 @ 23:24:15
This reminds me of a movie I saw where two children played together – they didn’t know they were brother and sister, just that they loved each other. Until one of the parents decided they shouldn’t play together anymore. And the little girl drowned herself in a local river due to her broken heart (and her mother then went insane).
Jun 02, 2021 @ 05:27:41
Oh! My that’s a really sad story. That can happen in life 💜
Jun 02, 2021 @ 10:57:02
That was for a time when it was acceptable for a married man to have a mistress. But then he dropped her and her child like hot potatoes when he had his heir.
Jun 02, 2021 @ 11:03:49
Typical, still happens to this day 💜
Jun 02, 2021 @ 14:32:26
Unfortunately, yes. But perhaps to a slightly lesser degree?
Jun 02, 2021 @ 15:27:10
Yes thank goodness 💕
Jun 10, 2021 @ 17:16:11
What’s the title of the movie?
Jun 10, 2021 @ 20:22:43
If I knew… I’d offer. But it was a long time ago.
Jun 11, 2021 @ 04:49:36
Well thank you for taking the time replying to my question.
Jun 11, 2021 @ 09:12:28
💜
Jun 02, 2021 @ 01:17:13
This is hearbreaking, Willow. You told it beautifully, though
Jun 02, 2021 @ 05:25:08
Thank you Dale, these events are always heart breaking. 💜
Jun 02, 2021 @ 10:16:12
They are. I imagine you heard about our disgusting situation? Pits with the remains of 215 Native children? I am heartbroken that such an event occurred here – more than once, I am sure.
Jun 02, 2021 @ 11:31:59
Yes I have heard of this and read of how the indigious people where and some still treated. In Kamloops…we visited there as part of our Rocky Mountaineer trip two years ago. We were horrified! Mind you let the country without blame throw the first stone. …Man’s inhumanity to man ….💜💜💜
Jun 02, 2021 @ 11:34:50
It’s horrible.
And you are right – any country with any power has shown their inhumanity.
Jun 02, 2021 @ 11:39:12
I have to admit I was very shocked, I can’t think of one country in the world without bad history and blame! 💜
Jun 02, 2021 @ 11:44:39
It is shocking. Sad. So sad. And maddening! 🧡🧡
Jun 02, 2021 @ 11:46:24
Yes it’s so unbelievably awful isn’t it 💜
Jun 02, 2021 @ 11:59:47
We think as a nation we are exempt from the ugly but no. We are so not. 🧡
Jun 02, 2021 @ 13:18:28
No none of us are .so sad.💜
Jun 02, 2021 @ 13:20:56
🧡🧡
Jun 04, 2021 @ 17:44:51
This is very good Willow and so sad.
Jun 04, 2021 @ 17:45:52
Thank you Marje 💜
Jun 04, 2021 @ 19:53:03
What a great way to start, “Golden light fractals…” and then the poem explodes into a Niagara of sorrow. A parent’s worst nightmare. Did you see the movie, Lovely Bones? It’s worth seeing. Here’s the trailer. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=lovely+bones&docid=608053737271001579&mid=FE8A62D1DED484B37A21FE8A62D1DED484B37A21&view=detail&FORM=VIREHT
Jun 04, 2021 @ 20:11:07
I saw the film and read the book, the book was brilliant, the film was good but the book was better.
Children do disappear it’s always heartbreaking 💜
Jun 04, 2021 @ 21:32:34
I haven’t read the book. It was a true story wasn’t it? What a tragedy. I love the way the kids got together and supported each other. Such heartbreak. I don’t know if I could ever have survived that pain. What motivated you to write your poem? Have you or someone close to you suffered that tragedy, Willow?
Jun 05, 2021 @ 04:00:08
Yes indeed the story of the kidnap,rape and murder of the young girl in the 70s is based on a true story but the story told from the victims point of view is obviously not but it’s so clever.
What made me write this poem? Just the sadness of so many children who do disappear, get abused or murdered just crept into my mind and wanted to be written. Sadness really.
Jun 05, 2021 @ 05:21:09
It is unbearably sad, Willow. You wrote it beautifully even though the topic was so sad.
Jun 05, 2021 @ 16:27:38
Thank you Marsha 💜💜
Jun 05, 2021 @ 20:59:28
I don’t know how to make hearts on my computer. 🙂
Jun 06, 2021 @ 03:59:22
If you don’t have them you can use < and 3 makes ❤ I mostly use my phone, habit really it's lighter and always handy 💜
Jun 06, 2021 @ 06:17:07
Phones work much better for adding emojis. I’ll try the heart <3. You can tell me if you get a heart. 🙂
Jun 06, 2021 @ 08:41:05
They do don’t they 💜
Jun 06, 2021 @ 13:03:37
So here I sit on a computer. 🙂 Even with auto correct, it takes so much longer to type a response on a phone than on a computer.
Jun 06, 2021 @ 13:16:36
I am just the opposite 💜
Jun 07, 2021 @ 03:01:14
And that is why we have so many choices. 🙂 I like to use my phone in the car when I don’t have to drive. It keeps me caught up.
Jun 07, 2021 @ 03:49:31
Yes me too 💜
Jun 06, 2021 @ 13:15:39
Yes thank you I did a nice sideways one < <3, (*-*) (*<*)
Jun 07, 2021 @ 05:01:43
🙂
Jun 05, 2021 @ 16:58:24
OMG!!! This would make the best introduction to a murder mystery ever! You wrote this poem as if it was a vision! Wow! Love this, Willow. ❤
Jun 05, 2021 @ 17:35:56
Thank you Colleen it is a special Poem to me 💜
Jun 05, 2021 @ 18:14:34
You channeled something from the Oracle, Willow. For sure! Very powerful. ❤
Jun 05, 2021 @ 19:00:21
Thank you Colleen 💜
Jun 05, 2021 @ 21:43:59
❤️❤️❤️
Jun 06, 2021 @ 06:18:28
Very evocative.
Jun 06, 2021 @ 08:40:42
Thank you 💜
Jun 07, 2021 @ 03:37:26
My pleasure Willow.
Jun 07, 2021 @ 03:47:50
😃
Jun 07, 2021 @ 03:48:21
Thank you Colleen 💜
Jun 07, 2021 @ 10:20:22
You set the melancholy tone well. (K)
Jun 07, 2021 @ 10:28:55
A dark tale told very well Willow and left with so many questions.. excellent poem hugs Sally
Jun 07, 2021 @ 13:59:55
Thank you Sally, it’s a sad one 💜💜
Jun 10, 2021 @ 17:16:36
Sad, but very well done.
Jun 10, 2021 @ 20:15:44
Thank you 💜
Jun 15, 2021 @ 22:32:36
Excellent!
Jun 16, 2021 @ 09:36:07
Thank you 💜
Jun 17, 2021 @ 03:21:07
Yes, there is too much neglect, abuse and misuse of children. I have worried during the pandemic for women and children caught in abusive relationships with no “escape” such as school or work.
One of the tragedies here has been the separation of children from families at the border, and the treatment/fate of unaccompanied minors who make the perilous trek to the US through Central America and Mexico.
You poem evokes the sadness of the plight of children around the world.
Jun 17, 2021 @ 05:34:29
It’s such a sad world full of abuse for many, as you say the pandemic has worsened things and brought many problems to the fore. Thank you for reading 💜.