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Rated: 18+ · Book · Spiritual · #1149750
10k views, 2x BestPoetryCollection. A nothing from nowhere cast words to a world wide wind
#1026845 added December 21, 2023 at 10:00pm
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...but you're not there
…but you’re not there

from our shore I swore I could smell
the mountain air —
majestic, stoic, lowering
in dull moon light, but less romantic
for one stiffly unbelieving.

water absorbed a string
of light-connecting beach fires,
collectively incinerating
bark-bare wood
combers in flannel and cardigans hauled.

wandering waves obediently encircled
our nimble toes stripped bare,
yet never dared run free,
or hand-in-hand down an extended scene,
because

I didn't know you and you never asked me
one single question,
while waiting
on friends to gather,
silence filling, building mystery.

a dull blue lake chilled darker
by minute time. my head clocked
infinite expansion in our vacuum
until it ran past limited eternity,
as long shadows finally interceded.

whenever smoke lifts to the moon,
my heart skips upon Superior blue.
I feel you idle next to me
in oversized, cable sweater,
swirls of over-applied sweet scent
mix in earthen-steeped steam.

I reach for your hand...



2.16.22
7.11.22
12.21.23 tweaks

unrequited can be the poet’s eternal disease. 2.20.22…and who cares now when I wrote that?

#romantic #summer #moon

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