https://archive.rustgeek.me/tags/ella/ Recent content in Ella on A Geek's Life Hugo en Wed, 11 May 2011 19:30:48 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2011/05/11/for-ella-an-epilouge/ Wed, 11 May 2011 19:30:48 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2011/05/11/for-ella-an-epilouge/ <p><em>August 2010 to April 2011</em></p> <p>Word for word, We beat the love Out of each other *</p> <p>Like hammer - Blows crack rock, And water- Wears granite Smooth- Day by day, Our rage poisons- Everything.</p> <p>Memory is - A wound kept raw; closure is An uncertain salve.</p> <p>The End. <em>Sigh</em> *Line shamelessly purloined from <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/180592">Yousef Komunyakaa&rsquo;s Once the Dream Begins</a>.</p> https://archive.rustgeek.me/2010/09/16/questions-for-ella/ Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:08:14 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2010/09/16/questions-for-ella/ <p><a href="https://archive.rustgeek.me/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/ella1.jpg"><img alt="ella" loading="lazy" src="https://archive.rustgeek.me/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/ella1.jpg"></a></p> <p>Do misty eyes mean Pain festering deep Lean souls starved - Hope blithely crushed And purloined?</p> <p>Do memories mean Wounds left raw, rubbed sore, Chafed red - careless promises Blown away like ripples on a lake by a belligerent hurricane?</p> <p>Do clasped hands hide scars And wry smiles hide gloom</p>