"Grief" – Postcard

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This week’s Sunday Postcard Art challenge was "Grief."

I tried to create a piece that would convey my own words:

Sometimes Death leaves the living with an irreparably broken heart.

I created this using GIMP 2.8.14.

The vintage images are from a DuckDuckGo search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

The font is:

JSL Ancient Italic

The background words are from the poem May by Christina Rossetti

I cannot tell you how it was,
But this I know: it came to pass
Upon a bright and sunny day
When May was young; ah, pleasant May!
As yet the poppies were not born
Between the blades of tender corn;
The last egg had not hatched as yet,
Nor any bird foregone its mate.

I cannot tell you what it was,
But this I know: it did but pass.
It passed away with sunny May,
Like all sweet things it passed away,
And left me old, and cold, and gray.