Tremulous memories

My dazed shiverings last all the day;
And my weeping at night makes me ever-wakeful.
Nothing matters in the silence of emptiness,
Endless sighing in the black void of nowhere.
Yet I am not alone in this I know, for there are
Tears pouring from so many other raw-red eyes
In other empty houses throughout the world,
And they accompany me in identical pain,
But hopefully I shall soon see some semblance
Of a light at the end of the black tunnel.
Either that or I have severe indigestion tonight,
Thanks to over-indulgence in battered fish 'n' chips
And my haemorrhoids are playing up a bit as well.

— Edna Sweetlove, Jul 19, 2020

About This Poem

Review Request Intensity: I appreciate moderate constructive criticism

Editing Stage: Polished draft

About the Author

Region, Country: London, Culture Capital of the World

Favorite Poets: Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Chaucer, Shakespeare to name but a few. And VERY IMPORTANTLY: Erich Fried, a leftwing Austrian of Jewish ancestry who fled the Nazis and became a British citizen in 1949., And, other writers (non-poets mainly): Raymond Chandler, Irvine Welsh, Anthony Burgess, Graham Greene, Charles Bukowski, John le Carré, Anthony Horowitz, Mick Herron, Margaret Attwood, Edna O'Brian, Maeve Binchy., Writers who I find vastly over-rated: TS Eliot, Virgina Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Phil Larkin, E.A. Poe, A. Ginsburg, Longfellow, Gerald Manley Hopkins (actually I LOATHE Hopkins more than damson-dappled words can say).

Critiques

Dandini

5 years 4 months ago

Another "undiscovered work,

Another "undiscovered work, ignored for over 7 months! Not as good as the Moses one I just read - indeed it's a bit depressing but the last line cheered me up.

scribbler

5 years 4 months ago

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Dandini

5 years 4 months ago

I must try and find some more

I must try and find some more pieces. Thanks for the tip.

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