Tuesday, July 21, 2020

A Poet's Demise

I got word a fellow poet died,
A cohort from the “Soup.”
I’d wondered where he’d gone to,
Maybe time off to regroup.

Though we’d had some things in common,
We’d not moved to being friends,
Yet his writing still provided
Some poetic dividends.

Still, on learning his “hiatus”
Will be permanent, I feel
Much more sad than I’d expect
For death, right now, seems so surreal.

He bequeaths to us impressions
In the words he chose to write
As I guess I will when going “gentle
Into that good night.”

written in memory of Matthew Anish


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