Disappointments

by Beulah Field — a poem card from Justes Mots

A haunting depiction of 'the Valley of Nadir,' filled with bleached bones, broken ribbons, and restless shadows weighted by stones—a symbolic landscape of disappointed hopes. The poem evokes profound melancholy and spiritual desolation with gothic imagery. Suitable for funeral contexts or processing deep grief and loss of dreams.

In the Valley of Nadir lies a deep, black pool,
And it mirrors only rainy harvest moons;
In the fringes of its grasses are little bleached, white bones,
And broken, faded ribbons, from gaudy, pricked balloons.
Restless shadows stumble ’round it, through the hot nights and the cool,
And their crippled feet are weighted down with stones;
Sometimes an echo whispers of golden, summer noons,
But you only hear the wind there, when it moans.…

Themes: sympathy · grief · reflection