the living the left
behind facing their ending
down inside the sea
© 2017 Melinda Irvine
Daily Prompt: Interior
Who was Lost at Sea
Melinda J. Irvine is an Australian writer, poet, and blogger living between the Philippines and Australia. Mel is adopted mum to Jerry, a Filipino boy she met in 2015 while volunteering after Typhoon Yolanda. All the money she earns as a freelance writer and author get her one step closer to legally adopting Jerry — plus helping the other kids from his village go to school.
I always cry when I hear Gordon Lightfoot’s “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” … now I can add your Haiku to the list of what makes me cry!
Thank you Susan, it was an incredibly moving little cemetery and it’s a wonderful feeling to know my little poem took you there. Mel.
lovely!