My Lasting Letter

My Lasting Letter


I have written these words
a thousand times, each time
so differently identical.  They
have been written on the wind,
blessed by the idle warmth of
sunset, scratched into the 
setting concrete of a life.
I have breathed them in the sighs
of simple joy, basking in the
laughter of youths folly,
shouted them in anger at
times passing, whispered them
into empty rooms, spoken them
to vacant playgrounds, motionless
swings, yellowing grasses.
I have left them twixt the ether of
our beings knowing someday
they will be opened in your heart.



9/20/2014
For Elly Wouterse – Maybe the last letter – poetry contest
Copyright © | Year Posted 2014

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Dietrich Avatar
September 30, 2014 at 6:55 PM
wow, and I agree with PD. this is one of the best today at soup. Very deep. If I had tried this contest, I would have wanted to write one like this. a FAVE
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September 25, 2014 at 7:35 PM
John, this is deep, and one of the best poems I've read today. Your words in this poem seem, to come alive, as I read some of the lines, over and over. A great way in sharing a lasting letter. LINDA
Mehta Avatar
September 21, 2014 at 9:03 AM
Fine write on the theme of the contest, good luck. John
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