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I find this powerful, poet-e, very Sisyphus like, as Linda points out.  The alliteration hammers, really drives home and drives in the raw emotion.  Well done !!!
Aj

Nice one, Colm.  Tender as death dealings can be... life must go on, til...........

"I sell, then make memorials" - wonderful.

Great to have you back - missed your death charm.
Aj

Love this, Phil... Sweet !!!!   Great rhyme scheme.     Screw Covid-19 !!!!!!!!!!!
Aj

Ok - I'm definitely losing it............. Indar, my comments just above were meant for you, for your sweet and painful poem.
I got confused, I think, because of Gyppo's touching comments.
Hope you are well.
Aj

Ah Gyppo - this is so sweet and melancholy, yet joyful, tender and warmly telling it as it is.  Allows the reader to easily immerse into the moment and the scene, and reflect.  Yes, the wonder of family, few words needed.
Aj 

HI Dave - a caring and touching poem.  Seems to hit close to home. On first and subsequent reads, "them" in S1 L2 seems to refer to "the palest blues."  And nicely done at that. And "they" in S3 L1 refers to "the curtains" in S2, if I am not mistaken.  At least this is what I see.  And the "they" in...

It looks like the Great Bear and the Yellow Peril have decided  over the last several years that they've had enough of the West dictating the rules and setting the table, pushing "defensive" missiles to their borders and invasions and regime changes everywhere.................... It will not be pret...

This is awesome, Colm.  Everything Linda says, and more.  If you have a soul and occasionally acknowledge it, then you know music, you hear music.  There is music in everything if we chose to hear it, to listen.  Sitting under my apple trees I hear a flute.  Love the phrase "violin extraordinary and...

Powerful, Linda... painfully powerful............... nice use of "Silent Spring"...... and like my Portland Street, once "canopied" with majestic elms...........  but, int the end, who are we ?!?
Beautiful and sad.
Aj

Hey Dylan - I like this a lot.  You tell a great truth, easily and smoothly, with rhymes that flow effortlessly... wonderful title..........  Superb!!!
Aj