Renewal

Dave BontaContemplative

I am defeated and changed believe less and hope little

my wife in her garden and I to my thinking place

down by the sea the sea

an angel falling into being here now

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 20 November 1663.

Dave Bonta

SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0

Mood:: Contemplative
Topics:: sea, angel, garden, wife

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The poem begins with an admission of loss. The speaker says he is defeated and changed, that he believes less and hopes little. There is no drama in how he says it, just a plain, tired honesty.

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