Category: Poems
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To Those Who Mourn in Silence (100,000)

© To Those Who Mourn in Silence, Shari Lopatin, 2020 (written 5-28-2020) I see your pain in Silence. As you curl Away Into your private world, Lost, never found, And missing your 100,000. I sink with you Alone. And scoff at the smiles That mock Your loss. If silence is your Cry, I will…
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America, How I Weep
America, How I Weep A Poem, by Shari Lopatin ©Shari Lopatin, 2016 Oh America, How I weep for thee! My once beautiful muse, My distant refuge. Your maternal embrace Protected our grace, and welcomed My family whole. But now I stand atop your dream, In cowardice and fear I glean ……