Rowena Velasco Poet Free verse

My Voice, Forgotten Music

My Challenge for October Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Andrea Dietrich 
Contest Judged:  11/3/2025 12:45:00 AM
( 1st Place )

Written: Oct 16, 2025


Once I sang
without thinking…
songs for no one
just joy spilling out like sunlight.
Now the words stay trapped
and my throat feels like a locked room
but somewhere, faintly, a whisper waits;
a quiet promise that I might sing again..

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Andrea Dietrich November 3, 2025 at 1:16 AM This has to be the most beautiful of all the entries to my contest. How sad to lose one's tuneful voice! Congrats in my contest Rowena Velasco November 3, 2025 at 2:34 AM Thank you.

sara Etgen-Baker October 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM your poem reminds me a bit of my hubby--he at one time sang effortlessly...now he doesn't...sometimes, though, I hear him humming--the promise as you say. nicely done Rowena Velasco October 15, 2025 at 9:43 PM Thank you so much for sharing that it’s beautiful how even a quiet hum can hold so much meaning.