Long Unsent Poems

Replying back within seconds, staring at our texts waiting for a reply, rethinking what I said. Did my words make your heart melt like yours do to me? Have you smiling and giggling at your...

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I have to put you away again
My Dear and Special Friend
Deep inside of my folly, a
Pleasure having you visit 
My Irish melancholia

You’re here, I am not sure why
I think it’s not locking up
These months you...

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Do you remember how I spent every day pushing you away?
Do you remember how you used to open up to me forever and a day?
Do you remember how when we talked on the phone you...

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Written: September 18, 2023
Unwritten Absence Poetry Contest              Sponsored by: Ink Empress
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In the absence of ink—in a nexus of poetic dreams,
Anathematized by disconsolate...

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(continued from Part 1)

Two points create a line
A space from two words
And on and on a verse
A poetry line is sound and sense
A dense fabric of many textures & hues
Woven on a temporal loom
With patterns...

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Ranting and raving
I'm always wrong to string you along
show you
how right you really are
I should stop 
smell the daisies
nothings getting better
you will come to know
what grows between the rows
the life lessons we don't realise and...

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Tonight my ink is mute
and this quill rests in silence.
I’m searching for the perfumed poem
you’ve placed in my aching soul,
when I found a home 
within your aesthetic embrace,
whilst, the honeyed tip of your silvery voice
sketched...

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it took me six months to understand that the songs you sing me late at night
are not unsent love notes.
not unconfessed lust. 

just cliche and plagiarized

just songs that you like
that you want me to like...

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The letters that I never sent
Are the words that were never spent
The feelings that I couldn't share
And the secrets that I couldn't bear

They are the unsaid, the undone
The stories that were never spun
The words that...

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All that I have left are pictures and treasured memories anymore,
That is all that I have left of some one I love and adore.

Left behind inside my chest is a black hole, a hollow void,...

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This place is always a little lonely 
At the weekends...no noise and life, 
I like solitude, 
But not in places 
Where's there's recently been 
A lot of people.

Reclusiveness protects you 
From nostalgia, 
And you can...

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THOUGHT LETTERS


I wrote a thousand letters in my mind
about the clouds I saw,
the songs I heard,
the thoughts I wished to share.

I wrote them in a plane, on a road, or in
a quiet time alone.

They were...

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I like your long wavy hair
Brown it is better than fair
I like your pretty eyes in green 
They’re the purest I have ever seen

Or maybe they are hazel?
Beautiful but still as sharp as a razor!
(And...

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I wore "cold" like a too sheer dress that never fit quite right.
And I held tattered unsent love letters like a shield over my chest.
And every time I shivered and my bones cracked, I swore....

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Postcards From Oblivion

I dreamed you reached out to me last night
Just to tell me it still wasn't right
As if you thought it would be news 
Darling, these nightmares could be dreams
We can shy away from...

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Dearest,


There would be no nightfalls 
thereunto your eyes but partly goosebumps
nor would be nightscapes along your brows 
even an inch above their  shorelines

where darkness heaves 
no. When shadows dance in tip-toed pirouette to the...

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We don't talk about it
Since hands upon the clock have ceased to move
When minutes creep, on skittish feet
The walls grow small~

By blue degrees, she drowns slowly
Waiting on skies which never clear
While she cuts holes in...

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He wonders in silence aloud screaming
speaking to his own reflection unseen
memorized moments unfolding backward
like a rubber band unwinding
in its given way and own time
as fear brings clouds nearer
yet denial looms larger than life
a victim of...

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 In the realm of self-interest, a curious soul,
Could not adhere stamps, sans wit owning a role.
 His tongue, like a rover in arid terrain,
Lingered on whimsy, a scoffing refrain.

 Precision eluded, in blindfolded dance,
Tongue...

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I am trying to hold back all my tears,
  While writing to you about all those abusive years.
  When did you decide to turn into a monster?
   You treated me as...

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I don’t know where you’ve gone,
And I don’t know how long it’s been.
I’ve been here all alone, 
And these letters have gone unsent. 

I’ve tried reaching you for hundreds of years,
But, like the cold, I’m...

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This is love for me
    
          Love is the distance between you and me
         ...

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Just one more time
to lay next to you
to feel your love
and know it's true

Arms encircling
the one I so love
To kiss your lips
Like paradise above

To be alive once more
And not in this vegetative state
To feel one...

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Erinle

Eventide.
Night unclads at the riverside
with her gown perfumed with silence
slowly droping on a mat of
clams and gasping tilapia.
Pillow of pebbles that turns into gold
when the morning sun kisses
the earth with Midas lust.
Her eyes searches every...

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Under the cloud where the velvet smoke bled,
'Love's a curse' the smiling soul said;
The blood in the dwarf's heart then froze,
When an indecisive liar presented her the rose...

The fingers around which my ring would slide,
On...

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