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Unsent Letters

Written: September 20, 2024 For: Letters or Photographs Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Ink Empress ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A mound of unsent letters was under my pillow Frozen in time, drifting through my fantasies My rhymes are scribbled with secret poetry some have brilliant gleams others induce quiet cries. I have a letter written in ink at daybreak a liquid of warmth embraces every syllable I saw your name and felt an immense longing! how it gnaws on my chest as a ravenous beast. I released my hands and let you sail away from the solitude and heavyweight! a spry touch from your forgotten memories for me, a sweet delight, but oh my inner injury! Our space is still a shattered wand to touch my pained heart with dryer life to perish in the shadows the sun is setting, making it time to chat down the soul, sipping from saturation straw. Distant away, my desert hurts love that will melt needles rejecting thread for another morning stitching with unfamiliar birds, who molt their feathers the spindled leg has ungainly wings Satan laughs as he burns the sand. Prophets of haste lack words erosion glass steeple returns home this is the worst season ever known Your Nimbus Breeze is limitless burning your deed with the rust of logic carving now in grey dust. I can only write words that you will not foresee gathering lost pebbles for eternity draw up our sunken riches these words of mirage, palm arms swaying my black meeting reminds me of a dream from yesterday on a forsaken planet.

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Ink Empress

Date: 10/6/2024 3:05:00 AM

Dear Dr Sotto, I absolutely love how you’ve expressed so many emotions in this and how your poem flows with such deep longing and love truly is touching and emanates an evocative touch. I especially love the lines “I saw your name and felt an immense longing! how it gnaws on my chest as a ravenous beast.” Ah that really resonates with me and i felt that! And the ending is beautiful too! Thank you for writing and for sharing and i hope to read you often, congratulations on your win.

Paige Hind

Date: 9/27/2024 6:16:00 PM

Raw poetry, indeed. It's so beautiful, so many lines caught me. "the spindled leg has ungainly wings" I also love "these words of mirage, palm arms swaying my black meeting reminds me"

Arthur Vaso

Date: 9/22/2024 1:38:00 AM

Beautiful poetry, being dyslexic I read the word in the first line as "mold" I smiled because that would have worked too! Great poem!

Peonieslore xo

Date: 9/21/2024 12:54:00 PM

Incredibly poetic, beautiful metaphors.

Kim Rodrigues

Date: 9/21/2024 7:56:00 AM

Those words that branch through time, can still hurt and delight. Very nice, Lasaad! Like Valsa says we saw your name and knew we haven’t seen your name in a while. Hope all is well!

Valsa George

Date: 9/20/2024 9:40:00 PM

"I saw your name and felt an immense longing! how it gnaws on my chest as a ravenous beast." At certain moments of life, the pain of lost love becomes so gripping that we long to release the weight we feel at heart by expressing it in written words. Time and again, how forgotten memories resurrect! A powerful poem of love, loss and resentment. Welcome back dear Lasaad and all the Best.