Adelaide B. Shaw

A Slow Walk into the Future

Losses I have had. Parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends . . . husband—the hardest to accept. In my life from the moment of meeting until the second of ending—60 years.

the push to move on
a yo-yo of success
and failure
I become friends with time
and hold hands as I held his

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About the Author

Adelaide B. Shaw lives in Somers, NY  She has been creating Japanese poetic forms for fifty years. Her books, An Unknown Road and The Distance I’ve Come, are available on Amazon. She posts published work on http://www.adelaide-whitepetals.blogspot.com