The Hunt of Grief
For the Poetry of the Hunt Challenge
Lost in the forest—searching, searching, but
All I can see are trees surrounding me
Dense foliage thick with the scent of pine and
The rushing of green and brown as I run
Searching, searching, always searching, but I
Cannot find you among the blurring trees
* * *
My heart races, adrenaline pulsing
Through my veins as I grow more desperate
You have left no tracks behind, no scent or
Sign of where you’ve gone, but I will find you
I will hunt you down, I will locate you
I will bring you with me back to our home
And then everything will be all right
* * *
A light beams far away, a flash of you
I race toward it, my legs are burning
Faster, faster I run, closer I get
Light surrounds me, your image closes in
I can almost touch you, the light burns me—
* * *
Then I wake up and find that you’re still dead.
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Stephanie Hoogstad
With a BA in English and MSc in Creative Writing, writing is my life. I have edited and ghost written for years with some published stories and poems of my own.
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"Do It Again" the track that would ultimately open the Beach Boys final album on Capitol Records which was released on February 10th 1969 had originally been released as a single in August of 1968. The track was the first of many post-Pet Sounds era throwbacks to the early Beach Boys sound which would become continually more cliched and eventually lead the Beach Boys to the level of self-parody they would eventually succumb to in the 1980s while their closest contemporaries The Beatles nearing the end of their run in 1969 would go on to be viewed as the most influential band of all time. However, the song itself is not bad on its surface, and it opens with a futuristic sounding (for 1969) drumbeat captured by then-Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper using tape delays on the drums performed by Dennis Wilson and John Guerin. The song has been re-recorded numerous times over the years on various Beach Boys-related projects most notably the 2011 re-recording at Capitol studios featuring the five surviving Beach Boys at the time backed instrumentally by various members of both the Brian Wilson Band and Mike Loves touring "Beach Boys" to promote the then upcoming Beach Boys 50th Anniversary reunion tour in 2012. The hammering and power drill sound at the end of the song was an excerpt from a track called "Workshop" that was to be a part of the uncompleted "SMiLE" album.
By Sean Callaghan5 days ago in Beat
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This was so intense, Stephenie!! Congrats on placing honourable mention in the poetry hunt challenge!!
Excellent poem, vividly emotive. Congratulations, well done placing in the challenge.🏆🤗
Wooohooooo congratulations on your honourable mention! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
Grief is so devastating because you feel it over and over again after periods of hope like this dream. Well written.
I felt it. It's such a hard emotion but you captured it magnificently
What a great description of grief and finality of loss, Stephanie!