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Written: May 18, 2024, For Unseeking Seeker Contest

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Languid breath dwindles, scrounging panacea air
quiddity remorse core conveyed mindful glare
seraphim guilt throe stems from mind sapidity
heart wispy ousts weltschmerz, hatred morbidity.

Gentleness key squeals heart-tangled inner thread
unboxed core lead ecstatic heart hobnobbed tread
Is my heart-mind rancor overlaid by hazy myopia? 
milk with ice is a quintessential pillar of utopia.

Shepherding pragmatic apotheosis wide universe
hampered altruistic love ephemeral zeitgeists verse
emotional outbursts during meiosis—placate impact
forging forfend feeling fallacy focusing on facts.

Seeking soothing sense as silk-satin smoothness
fetches forbearance, fosters faith hearty-filled fewness
ripple aposiopesis words transcend catharsis sight 
sate sinew, eschew omniscience, heed hubris might. 

Living stubbornly with caesura implies life-moored 
we are living offhand, leaving us brittle but allured 
Issues occur wisely rather than haphazardly sought 
willing for heart-mind coo to fulfill what's taught.  

With authenticity, grace, sympathy, and tolerance
respect all people, despite views or providence
uphold merciful attitude and passionate mind
brain-heart harmony molded by cosmic pull blind.

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Tonye George Date: 5/29/2024 4:33:00 AM Congratulations Dear, Sotto on your wonderful piece and win. Login to Reply

Hilda Greenhough Date: 5/20/2024 11:43:00 PM This is a fine poem of equilibrium. I enjoy this positive outlook. Login to Reply

Duke Beaufort Date: 5/20/2024 4:52:00 PM SP, There's a lot to take in. You have some great suggestions for how we should behave. This is a great follow up from your last entry...the heart-mind coo is a coup! Hope we can be like this. At least we are here! Login to Reply

Ink Empress Date: 5/20/2024 1:33:00 AM Ah dr sotto what a profound write this is, one that flows with exquisite alliterations and diction using poetic techniques to deliver one that flows with not just wisdom but philosophical depth! Very creative is the way your rhymes flow and i love the uniqueness of your diction! And theres so much one can take from this write! But most importantly it covers the prompt in a very meaningful manner! I love the lines “ Seeking soothing sense as silk-satin smoothness”-cadence of that stanza! Wow! BOL Login to Reply

Vijay Pandit Date: 5/19/2024 6:05:00 AM A powerful message you convey, my friend: With authenticity, grace, sympathy, and tolerance respect all people---uphold merciful attitude and passionate mind---words of wisdom reverberate the essence of your theme, Lasaad. Login to Reply

Silent One Date: 5/19/2024 4:16:00 AM Hey Sotto, your poem evokes a sense of struggle and resolution, as the speaker grapples with complex emotions and philosophical questions. The imagery of "seeking soothing sense as silk-satin smoothness" and "living stubbornly with caesura" conveys both the difficulties and the serenity found in introspection and personal growth. Login to Reply

Victor Buhagiar Date: 5/19/2024 3:03:00 AM Splendid if difficult diction. Great rhyme and flow of verse. Very deep in thought. Had to read it twice and hear the recording. Such complex emotions. Login to Reply