605 : The Loss (revisited)

Back in March, dVerse Poets challenged us to write a 'cinquain', 

a five line poem with 2, 4, 6, 8, and 2 syllables in the five lines.

My original version caused one of my readers of the time to complain

and I removed the poem.  I regret doing that now and have recreated it

but built around what was probably the hardest phone-call

I ever took as a Life-Line counsellor. 

A man had found a book when tidying his garage.  

It had belonged to his son who had drowned a few years earlier 

and brought his grief back in full force.

The Loss

The book

Was in a box

When he found it one day; 

He held it tightly to his chest 

And cried.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2013 

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