Desire

Day-10

NaPoWriMo-2026

Prompt:  In his poem, “Goodbye,” Geoffrey Brock describes grief in three short stanzas, the second of which is entirely made up of a rhetorical dialogue. Today, write your own meditation on grief. Try using Brock’s form as the “container” for your poem: a few short stanzas, with a middle section in which a question is repeated with different answers given.

                                                                             Image: Sunita

We are chained to a time frame

Tied in a grip of lost moments

Across the barbed wire, our hearts 

Whisper each other's name.

(Do you miss me? You do love,

with salt in your eyes. Breathe again.

Do you miss me? Hope you have an

image to carry to your grave.)

Missing you makes the heart bleed.

Time has wrapped all,

the pain in a bottle, before the fall,

aching with the lingering need.

Participating in: NaPoWriMo-2026