Mourning Gates Of Dawn Poem by Simone Harriman

I really enjoyed your poem, Simone. Thank you for sharing.

I read this one time but like some poems, I need a morning read so I'll be in the morning with tea...Thus far I love what your putting down.....

Grief takes us all differently, you have a soul touching way with words. Thank you.

This is also a WOW for me. Starting with the writing. I like the flow of the poem, the selection and the placement of the words makes it easy for the reader to follow the path of mourning. Amazing capture of double and triple meanings with your words, of enjambments and alliteration. This poem is a spectacle! Now for content. The speaker takes us on a grief journey that highlights the loss of a mother from the viewpoint of a daughter just going through puberty and starting to become a woman. She sees her father disintegrate in anger and alcohol while trying to figure out her own feelings and grasp those tumble weeds of hormones that throw a woman's emotions in every direction at once. The timing of this poem leaves the reader hanging off pikes peak or impaled on it with the young 13 year old in this poem. This was so much Simone! Thanks for sharing. What a powerful write.

grief takes many on an emotional free fall but you are able to put it in a poem and drag anyone who reads it along with you. I am drained after reading it, thanks Simone

** cryptic: 'adjective Having hidden meaning; mystifying. synonym: mysterious'

If this poem weren't, in my mind, so cryptic ** I'd give it more than the 3 stars it's getting. bri ;)

I'll let SOMEONE ELSE comment (or not) on the last stanza. I'm 'pooped'. Are you? bri ;)

Simone, I espcially liked your words: 'There's no cake or candy in Colorado Only glacial arctic icing' NO ICE CREAM? ? ? ? ;) p.s. 'icing' is also called 'frosting' when referring to a sugary coating on a piece of (or whole) cake.

piked: 'Furnished with a pike; ending in a point; peaked; pointed.' A mountain, Pikes Peak, is not far from Colorado's Garden of the Gods.