A MOOD

Published on 11 November 2023 at 19:34

There are days that settle upon us like mist. Not unpleasant days, but days when we cannot grasp a thought or recall a name. It seems we float through a dream yet we know we are awake. Thomas Aldrich describes it better, in his poem “A Mood.”

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ART:  "En Blu"  2022

A blight, a gloom, I know not what, has crept upon my gladness--
    Some vague, remote ancestral touch of sorrow, or of madness;
    A fear that is not fear, a pain that has not pain's insistence;
    A sense of longing, or of loss, in some foregone existence;
    A subtle hurt that never pen has writ nor tongue has spoken--
    Such hurt perchance as Nature feels when a blossomed bough is broken.

~Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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John W Bell
a year ago

A very good poem. I also like the minimalist art.

Mary Morelli
a year ago

Ditto what John said. He always beats me to it lol 😊. I Love you Linda.