Gloom swallows up days,
casting long shadows of doubt
that sink into souls.
After watching and reading the April poetry challenge by Mary Lee Hahn at A Year of Readingfor the past several years, I decided to write a poem a day this month. Mary Lee is hosting PO-EMotion, with a different emotion for each day of the month. Today’s focus is DESPAIR. For even more poetry fun throughout April, check out the roundup of poetry celebrations and projects at Jama’s Alphabet Soup.
Doubt is the theme for today’s gospel that I just heard. your poem captures this.
I didn’t think about it as I wrote it, but doubt very much feeds into despair.
Haiku is perfect for despair. I love how dark your poem feels.
Thanks. This was a hard one for me to write.