Sotto Poet Poet Free verse

Unsent Letters

Written: September 20, 2024

For: Letters or Photographs Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Ink Empress
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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 October 6, 2024 at 3:05 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 September 27, 2024 at 6:16 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 September 22, 2024 at 1:38 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!

nastyolives blegh September 21, 2024 at 12:54 PM Incredibly poetic, beautiful metaphors.

Kim Rodrigues September 21, 2024 at 7:56 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 September 20, 2024 at 9:40 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.