The Letting Go

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    Poem Commentary

    This was inspired by Emily Dickenson. Her poem, "After pain, a formal feeling comes", triggeres this write.

    The Letting Go

    The Letting Go: Drew Lancaster


    It takes hours to freeze

    Years to let go

    Emily wrote this first

    How the person recollects the snow


    First the chill

    Which brings shock to the veins

    Then the stupor

    Hangs the head, a collapse of the brain


    Oh, the letting go

    It can take years you know

    The faster you feel it

    The quicker it goes

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    SavVySam commented on The Letting Go

    01-11-2010

    A savvy and expressive piece of work! I liked this one a lot Drew! Clever and fitting end to punctuate the piece!
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    wiskeygirl5090 commented on The Letting Go

    01-11-2010

    wow this poem really touched me i lost my young nephew back in sept and its true letting go is hard
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    A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

    Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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