Tarrah and Serrin Have Not Passed Away

January 28, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is dance, used metaphorically.

Today’s poem is a name poem about the death of two children in which the dance is not yet over.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Tarah and Serrin have not passed away.

A dance is not over when dancing is done.

Remembering them is like feeling the sun

As the moon turns to silver the black-bordered bay.

How can one ferret out words that might say

All the truth of the truth that two children are gone?

Not just the meaning but also the song,

Deepening what no dissent can delay.

So may we linger with them for a while,

Each moment a moment of beauty and pain,

Restoring a sense that makes no sense at all.

Reason alone cannot sponsor a smile.

In faith and desire we see them again

Nearby, still dancing beyond a glass wall.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/taraha.html. For more poems about death, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/deathpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Dance, Used Metaphorically

January 22: Kaylee

January 23: Death Can Also Be a Dance

January 24: Dinosaurs Will Dance All Day

January 25: It All Went Far Too Quickly

January 26: So Shall the Changing Seasons Mark the Year

January 27: Our Love Has Slowly Gone Downhill

January 28: Tarah and Serrin Have Not Passed Away