Lonely in a Grey Landscape

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Lonely, naked tree in a grey landscape

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Writer's Island prompt ~ Avenge
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Avenge is a lonely

Naked

Tree ~

Dark limbs

Crossing and

Re-crossing

Grey landscapes
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Morning darkness
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Who could imagine
A grandfather would become
An axe murderer
Butchering the lives of
His wife and
Two young grandchildren ~
Slicing and cutting the mind
Of his own daughter ~
In a sense
She lives
But what living?
Just a tiny light
Struggling
In a dark morning
Waiting
To be switched
Off?
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Evolving news
Weighted with blurry detail
Is a horror of echoing
WHY'S
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Swirling morning clouds
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Some news suggests
He could have suffered with
Dementia ~
Some news mentions
His son sank to suicide
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From a public perspective
A little light
Swirled with cloudy shapes
Is not quite enough
To give avenge
A reason
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But inside
Inside is another landscape
Where surreal realities
Avenge
Surreal realities
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Window on breaking morning light
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Maybe
As time flows
A little colour may dawn
Linking
Softening
Framed
Dark shapes
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Cobwebbed window with a hint of rain
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Meanwhile
I only see the hint
Of a leaning cross
On his window ~
Faintly webbed
In one small corner ~
And if you look closely
You may see
Tiny tears
Suspended
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P.S ~ This poem is in response to the latest news ~ see report in The Age ~ of a man who axed his family at Cowra, NSW. Police are still trying to find a motive.~