It’s time for our fifth (and final) Two for Tuesday prompt of the month! Pick one prompt or use both…your choice! 1. Write a stop poem. 2. Write a don’t stop poem.
Today is the final day of the 2019 April PAD Challenge, but come back tomorrow for the first Wednesday Poetry Prompt of May and stay for Poetic Form Fridays, the next WD Poetic Form Challenge, and so much more! — Robert Lee Brewer, Poetic Asides blog, Writer’s Digest
Stop
Remembering you hurts because
there are no more
new memories
All our times with you are
”remember when …”
And so every one of the
reminiscences,
however light or funny,
casts a shadow
But I can’t stop
(how could I stop remembering you)
because you also
fill me with joy
I still want to feel
all the feelings
open myself up to
their full intensity
even the pain,
loneliness,
devastation
Because it means you lived