Love Poem: In The Chill By My Windowsill I Sit Alone
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Written by: Susan Ashley

In The Chill By My Windowsill I Sit Alone

Oh! How I despise dawn’s blushing optimism
and dried hydrangea blooms sepia skinned and papery thin.
Humdrum hands beat doldrums drum.

Why won’t the summer solstice light this darkness?
A gnawing hollow where my heart should be.
Where cinder clouds float in negative space
memories collect like nesting sparrows beneath eaves.

I stray, a waif lost with my armful of loss.
Your death did steal my breath and heartbeat like a thief
while October’s wind trembled aspens like harp strings.



(Ten Poem Titles)

The Corruption Of My Lust For Life 
Autumn Side Of September 
Mundane Matters Of Mortals 
Theft Of My Will To Survive 
In Woes And Throes Of Sorrow 
A Vanilla Dove 
Escape Of The Bluesman’s Song 
The Sham Of My Humanity 
Death Is The Bane Of My Existence 
The Shedding Trees Of Autumn