Samantha Terrell
There’s a Saying, “Live, Laugh, Love”
It’s been five weeks
Since we buried you
Deep
In our hearts. Though, your urn sits capably,
Stronger than us, on the side-table
Alongside familiar
Newspaper clippings,
No longer comic strips
You regularly
Shared with a chuckle, but obituaries
Gathered up,
Like your spirit into the throng.
Dissimilarly, it’s physical, carbon-printing on thin paper
we can yet touch,
Coming from news circuits across the country,
Announcing your death – your birth into loving eternity.
About the writer:
Samantha Terrell is a widely published American poet. Her poetry has appeared in many fine publications such as: Dissident Voice, Dove Tales, Dwelling Literary, Ink Pantry, Lucky Jefferson, Nine Cloud Journal, Poetry Quarterly and others. Her collection “Vision, and Other Things We Hide From” is forthcoming from Potter’s Grove Press. Samantha and her family reside in Upstate New York, where they enjoy kayaking on still waters.
Image: Autumn (a study for the frescoes of the Sigrid Juselius Mausoleum) by Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931). No medium specified. No size specified. 1902. Public domain.
