After Shocks...Tremors Poem by John Tansey

After Shocks...Tremors

Rating: 4.5


Allow me, just these tears,
which well up, from inside
redden around the eye.
With face flushed,
and, stammering, speak of
what I most loved, and then lost…

For, if nothing else,
through such sorrow,

God, I have earned them…

So, allow me this rumination,
this reminiscence,
this languishing of the past.

To indulge, completely, in this self pity,

for, there is not one other who will…


JT 6/30/07

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Sarwar Chowdhury 19 August 2008

....a heart-felt expression....10

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John Tansey

John Tansey

Bronx, New York
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