pictured words

a simple pairing of pictures and poetry

Tag: Ekphrastic poem

Some stare straight ahead.
Some can’t help but gaze behind.
Others, eyes closed, dream.

#seventeensyllables

newyork-movie

It has been four years
since we nearly lost Izzy,
our grandbaby girl.

It has been two years
since my mother passed on to
the heavenly realm.

Now my son-in-law’s
mother is hospitalized,
fighting for her life.

The second week of
the second month of each year
feels like a movie –

a film I am in,
but choose to view from a safe
distance. Unseated.