Our effervescence

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Written: August 16, 2025, for contest by Unseeking Seeker

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 "conjoined with the whole - we play our life role
exuding a scent - granting love consent"

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Conjoined with the Whole
Not as sovereigns, 
but as sylphlike strands,
woven into a ductile tapestry—
Each act of kindness forges
a bond within the communal consciousness. 

Love is not a shadowy incantation,
nor a glamour to inveigle us into isolation.
It is hortatory, beckoning forth...
a rosy summons to convene, 
amid the clangor of squalor and sojourn 
to supplant the slipshod ache
with a warm intention. 

We are not mere wanderers 
adrift in nebulous vacuum—
We are emulous embers,
thirsting for the amaranthine,
avid to imbue our days,
with seraphic resonance.

Community is not a chimera,
It is pavonine in its iridescent truth,
multivocal in its sweet sorrow,
edacious for connection
but never laden with avarice.

We do not dismiss the burden—
We collocate it, we share it
withdraw from silence, 
and cast aside the Icarus myth,
a tale of solitary flight,

Even the untamed child.
crumbles for the quest of kinship—
Even the weary elder winnows,
the soothing balm of a neighbor’s touch. 

Love sanctions its courtliness—
not merely a whispered sigh, 
but as a philanthropic deed,
a calyx protruding,
amid the clamor of desire. 

To love is to be an iconoclast
to find solace in a gentle embrace—
to forbear the yearning 
to anathematize others
to witness the evocative elysian—
in the eyes of the distraught.

We are not aphonic.
We are harmonious,
even in our disconsolate times.
We are evocative, full of meaning,
even when our souls feel drained. 

And when we reflect,
We accomplish this together—
in the emollient of shared grief,
in the soothing touch of shared joy. 

So let us frolic with abandon,
Let us explore the hidden meadows of our lives.
Let us gather in our joy,
transcendent in our understanding, 
Our sense of self is transient.

Let us be love—
not as an elusive dream,
but a tangible act. 
Let us be united with the whole.
And play our life roles.
with eloquence 
vibrancy, 
and grace.

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Valsa George

Date: 9/3/2025 4:37:00 AM

I feel humbled to see my poem placed above the poems of poets like you. I knew your poem would be placed high. To be frank, I never thought I would get the trophy. On reading your poem and a few other poems, I had made up my mind not to enter the contest. Finally when the contest entry was raised from 35 to 40, I entered my poem at the last minute and Seeker friend somehow liked it. Congratulations dear friend on your podium win. I feel I am well compensated by the rejection of a few other poems of mine in some other contests which could have been placed somewhere, though not at the top.

Karen Jones

Date: 9/3/2025 4:08:00 AM

Brilliant as always Sotto! Congrats on a top win!

Valsa George

Date: 8/17/2025 2:16:00 AM

"Let us be love— not as an elusive dream, but a tangible act. Let us be united with the whole. And play our life roles. with eloquence vibrancy, and grace." So inspirational.... one of explosive energy. Dear friend, this poem is so powerful in its presentation and loftiness in diction.

Paige Hind

Date: 8/16/2025 3:55:00 PM

A powerhouse of a poem, Sotto - deep, evocative, inspiring - enjoyed :) you did well with the prompt, broke it down to certain language