Jennifer’s evocative haikus on DifferentTruths.com navigate the visceral landscapes of memory, capturing the quiet, persistent ache of sudden emotional loss.
exploring
the nooks and crannies of my heart,
grief
***
inexplicably
every time my phone buzzes
I keep thinking it's you
***
your reflection blurs
in my rearview mirror
as I pull away
***
this grief
sure has a strong hold
on me
***
in between
not knowing and knowing
bliss
***
everywhere I look
you are here
in the shadows of my life
***
waking my heart
with the sun's rise
morning ritual
***
oh, the footprints!
you have left on my heart
in just three weeks
***
the blue sheen
of late-spring snow
on newly born flowers
***
tomorrow, again
a tsunami of blue
fifty fifty-one
Picture design by Anumita Roy
Jennifer Gurney, based in Colorado, teaches, paints, writes, and hikes. Her poems have appeared internationally in 11 books and won two contests. They have also been set to music, displayed on screens in Australia, printed in Washington, D.C., shared through the Rx Poetry project, and featured on a bus in Wisconsin. A lifelong writer, she says that at 62, joy and sorrow finally give her enough depth to write a decent poem now and then.
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