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Related: About this forumNightly visits from Rebecca Alynn
My sister passed away 10 years ago at age 46. She has been visiting my dreams, so I wrote a poem for her:
A VISIT FROM BECKY
My sister passed
from this world,
gone,
like a puff of smoke.
Extinguished,
a cinder girl
reduced to ash.
Her last lifes breath,
exhaled and rose,
a mystic mist,
to form a cloud.
At night,
wispy tendrils
swirl and descend.
She seeps,
full bodied,
into my dreams.
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Nightly visits from Rebecca Alynn (Original Post)
RSherman
Apr 2023
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Maraya1969
(23,014 posts)1. Oh wow.
Karadeniz
(23,466 posts)2. BEAUTIFUL!!!
2naSalit
(93,115 posts)3. K&R
livetohike
(23,020 posts)4. Beautiful. Sending hugs. n/t
delisen
(6,544 posts)5. This is a beautiful description of the the loss of another
They are gone, yet they are here.
RSherman
(576 posts)6. Perfect comment!
Thank you so much for "getting it". I could not have said it better. Did you notice all of the lines are in the past tense until the end?
CaliforniaPeggy
(152,315 posts)7. What a lovely eulogy for your beloved sister, my dear RSherman . . .
It's a wonderful poem.
I hope that it brings you relief from your sorrow.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(10,041 posts)8. I love this poem.
Sorry for your loss, even though so long ago.