Tag: loss

• 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

• canal

  Built by hands 
for the military. 
 
An element weaponized. 
 
The ultimate 
measure of mansplaining 
 
the needs of a 
country.

  Chris J Cluff

  July 31, 2022

  poetry

  canal, identity, loss, Ottawa, questions, Rideau, signals, water

• halifax

  Oh Canada, from far and wide, would stand on guard for them as well as thee.

  Chris J Cluff

  July 23, 2022

  poetry

  700 Miles, Halifax, loss, memory, relationships, signals, Titanic, wkwab