What Your Voice Promised
...You folded a shirt until the seam sealed a sentence.
Each crease was a stamp pressed shut — fold, press, set aside.
You stacked them: unmailed pages, tidy and unread.
In the kitchen you didn’t a...
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Categories:
unmailed, emotions,
Form: Free verse
The Last Leaf
...The special scarlet of a scheme orchid.
I'm teetering on the verge of a smirk.
You won't hear it when the dimout torpid
The special scarlet of a scheme orchid.
A last leaf's fall is t...
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Categories:
unmailed, analogy, anxiety, tree,
Form: Triolet
A Second Letter From God
...I suppose I should have been satisfied
with the first letter: I mean, just how
often does the Almighty write to us?
Not since He did it on stone, I suppose.
But I am human and so rarely conten...
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Categories:
unmailed, allegory, allusion, angst, conflict,
Form: Free verse
At This Lonely Hour
...I have written you countless poems all on EMBROIDERED napkins, by cascading
Moonlight at this lonely hour (unmailed).I have sifted through an assortment of mail
Hungrily tearing at envelope after ...
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Categories:
unmailed, conflict, cry, dark, poems,
Form: Prose
Reunion
...Her love lies low in cold, cold ground
for far too many years.
The green grass growing on his grave
is watered with her tears.
Lovingly crafted notes unmailed
are filling up her drawer.
She ha...
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Categories:
unmailed, love,
Form: Rhyme
Tender Loving Care
...The valiant struggle is o'er, the billowing smoke has dissipated.
The clash of steel is a horrid memory for those who participated.
Weary soldiers muster, the Captain says, "Boys, you've made me pr...
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Categories:
unmailed, deathlove,
Form: Rhyme