Tag: grief

• the broken heart of an optimist

  fights to stay openwithout bearing closed fistsrelies on disagreementabout whether holding back is bestnotices that it hasn’t noticed in a long whilelaunches into song, smiles,and sings long after the song endsand ends long aftertheir longing heart mends. but and even as it lays shattered after defeatsit glows up, shows up, and makes sure every piece […]

  Chris J Cluff

  January 8, 2023

  poetry

  grief, hope, intention, loss, love, mindset, optimism, pain, signals, truth

• stars

  I imagine the minds that played with the 
constellations, connecting 
the sparks, conjuring 
bears and lions 
and tigers 
on the inky 
canvas of night.

  Chris J Cluff

  June 30, 2022

  poetry

  balance, dadhood, family, grief, light, loss, memory, stars, truth, wkwab

• 2015

  and the drive back to the hospital was fragile and silent

  Chris J Cluff

  May 7, 2022

  poetry

  dadhood, family, grief, loss, memoirs, mourning, pete