Quiet calm
There is a quiet calm as
the skies awaken with dawn
Where are you now?
Even as time passes by
my questions remain
My longing numbs
Music fills the air
I see you everywhere
A solid note fills my soul
I am found
sitting
Pondering
In the corners tucked away
In my mind.
Sharon Nuku 20-05-24
A Coloured Day to Remember
It’s been a while
since I sat here with my thoughts
vibrating quietly
as memories run their course
Still long to hold you
to hear your beating heart
Three years on
the yearning rock hard
I glance at the sunset
map this journeys path
Knowing every year
I may return to this spot
.
Sharon Nuku 03-02-2022
.
Miss You
Plainly
simply put
I will miss You
till I am no longer
I will want You
till I have no breath
I will see You there in front of Me
until I can see no more
Plainly
Simply
On that day
Burn my body
Take my ash
Ask the wind to scatter me
to the four corners
of eternity
.
Sharon Nuku 03-12-2020
.
Naked Silence
Naked silence
that throbs inside
scary dark mobile
There’s a reluctance in loss
The desire to stay
to lock time in a moment
An overwhelming sadness
you know will never leave
The death that visits
as you still live
as your heart
is still beating
in Pain
Sharon Nuku 12-03-2019
.
Gasping for life
Hyperventilating with grief
That tremor on your bottom lip
You bite your tongue
to stop yourself
from losing it altogether
The emptiness
that thumps behind your eyes
threatening, to let the self pity
bleed it’s way through
Too broken
to feel your embrace
or warmth of your arms
Those moments
won’t ever come to life
in your memories
ever again
Sharon Nuku 17-03-2019
.
Are You there?
.
A gentle North wind blows
warming my face this morning
Behind the clouds, are the stars still shining?
Are You there?
The pieces of me, quietly drifting skyward
Blow gently
As the sun hits the horizon
You spread yourself thinly
Across the sky
Searching
Sharon Nuku 18-08-2020
.
Sorrow
.
Fragments of you
Cocooned in sorrow
Profoundly deaf
to the sound of life
rolling in on the ocean
Tumbling out on the black sands
that I have become
Crushed in water
Thick with salt
Foam billowing from my lungs
.
Sharon Nuku 07-12-2019
Raw
Raw
Without Energy
Soulless
No longer Warm
No longer Balanced
Cold
Teetering
on the Edge of Life
Looking Outwards
to that Shimmer
.
Sharon Nuku 03-05-2019
.
Grief
There are no stages
It’s just grief
A pulsating energy
that promises
to swallow you whole
if you let it
all the way inside
It separates you
from the world
from the people
you love
from the life
you love
That is the nature
It’s not a beast
It’s not a giant among humans
It is grief
It pours out in your tears
gives power to your sobs
and tremor to your bones
It’s all you can do
You taste it in your mouth
You fill your lungs with it
And it chokes you,
If you want it to
I don’t mourn my loss
I have lost all
You have died
That sorrow
has already seeped
into my skin
and the depth of my soul
I mourn the sorrow
Sorrow I have for a human being
that deserved to be alive
Deserved to enjoy the sweetness
of his labour and love
I mourn the sorrow
of the loss of you
All you should still be
Till my dying day
.
Sharon Nuku 09-03-1920
Stay
If I stay I live with you
You in the breeze
You in the land
You in the mountain
You in the air
If I go
I live with me
Me riding the winds
Me walking the lands
Me climbing the mountains
Me gasping for air
Me looking for you
Sharon Nuku 17-04-2019
.
Finding pieces of me in your heart
.
I have carried you in my heart
for centuries perhaps
Now that you are gone
it’s feeling heavy in my heart
I am falling slowly from the sky
having soared up to the stars
trying hard to grab your heart
hold you at the door before you leave
But now I’am falling without my heart
Take my pieces with you as you go
Put me back together where you are
and carry pieces of my heart
to wherever you may be
Sharon Nuku 10-08-2020
.
Your Chair
I find myself
glancing at Your Chair (when did it become Your Chair?)
With all of me
I wish You there
Just one more chance
to hold Your hands
To whisper
murmur
stand and dance
To say once more
I love you true
To hear You say
I love You too
.
Sharon Nuku 12-04-2019
.
What would I say?
.
What would I say to you now?
Would I talk about
how precious time truely is?
How the clouds are worthy of us
viewing them while they visit?
How I remove my hairtie
in the wind now?
How I beg time
to take back all my words
lashed out in anger?
How I’m so glad
you are back?
.
Sharon Nuku 07-08-20
.
Wind
There is wind
On the other side of the wall
I hear him
Pushing against the wood
Swirling in angry chaos
Trying to get in
There is wind
Drowning the sounds in my head
Blowing on my beating heart
Empty without you
There is wind
Rushing to catch the pieces
As they race towards the stars
..
Sharon Nuku 17-11-2020 One lonely night with a milk coffee
.
Lying on the sofa in the sun
.
Lying on the sofa in the sun
You came in a dream
Drama
Naked & bare
Sadness clearly seen
You came in a tear
The river
Carved a course
From cheek to shoulder
Wet
.
Sharon Nuku 21-01-21
Morning Sigh
We Love Yous
And Thank You
For Living On
We Wait Here Quietly
Our Breath Now Gone
But Through Our Window
We See You Live On
Our Gentle Gift
Thank You
.
Sharon Nuku 10-02-22
감사합니다
Memories held tight in the walls
of this house you lived in
as life called
Absently
Quietly
I walk to the space
Reminded
In the doorway
It’s no longer your place
Running my hands along the walls
In thanks for the love and shelter
This home gave
Cloaked in her arms
This old strong house
That kept out the cold
.
Sharon Nuku 01-05-22
Select a Poem
- Quiet calm
- A Coloured Day to Remember
- Gasping for Life
- Are You there?
- Sorrow
- Raw
- Grief
- Stay
- Finding pieces
- Your Chair
- What would I say?
- Wind
- Lying on a sofa in the sun
- Morning Sigh
- Thank You
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Cant read these without much breath stopping in my throat. Beautiful, heart wrenching… You write such good poetry.
This entry says so much more info than similar blogs, and it’s very helpful to me. Will be returning to read more writing from you! can I share this?
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These are amazing Sharon , as I read these beautifully written poems I see someone who is taking the lonely journey through the loss of a significant other. Most who read these will know and those who do not will at least be able to see what feelings you share which are magnificently articulated by the power of words arohatinonui taku hoa Davina x