I hope this is the correct place to post my poem today. This is a snapshot of my estrangement, almost ten years since meaningful contact with my youngest child, who will soon be 32. The note he wrote was “from the mountain” when he was 8 or 9. I still have it, along with some of his drawings and other art work.
Cool .
I’ve been working on a piece and it actually has some of these words .
This might help me push to finish it
Oh wow. Awesome. Can’t wait to read 💙
I’m behind at work xD
But I have to say thank you I enjoyed this challenge. Will do every week.
https://substack.com/profile/234439994-small-victories/note/c-86654692?r=3vkv22
Well done poets! Let’s see how week 2 goes!
Thank you for these words of inspiration. They definitely pulled out a story. Can’t wait until the next challenge. 🙏
The last long wishing game
Left me consuming memories of missing
You
With your gems for eyes
Through interstellar gas and dust, piercing
Me
On a quest for answers in the words I wrote
That suspended history with threads of
Us
Sipping sweet wines
When I preferred to drink the rich red
Crimes
Between us that is all that remains
Of the ecstasy we shared in those Chesterfield
Nights
That seem so relentlessly empty now
Void of your hot blood rushing alongside the
Jazz
Rhythms rolling over the peaks and valleys
We discovered when we were both
Lovers
Locked in the lingering legacies of time
Defined by two magnetic polarities pulled forcefully into a
Kiss
I never wanted to end
But now leaves me wondering at the phenomenon of
You.
—sylvia
Post comes out tomorrow; Some Audio Candy along with lyric poem. Thanks for the inspiration! https://open.substack.com/pub/andnowmiguel/p/water-moon-howling-audio-lyric-poem?r=2c4qsw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
This was smooth! I really enjoyed it! 👏👏👏
Sylvia, thank you! 🙏🏽 😊, I appreciate you listening and happy you enjoyed it.
https://open.substack.com/pub/lionshoneypoetry/p/everything-starts-with-eve?r=4at4s8&utm_medium=ios
Got mine ready for 7:30am tomorrow
I’m new to Substack and just saw this post about an hour ago, so decided to try it. It’s rather basic, but at least a start
Lost
The wish is yours
Lost among the interstellar gems that traipse
Across the sky
It will return
Only when missing wishes can discover
Other ways to fly
So until then
Don’t hold your breath waiting, for results might lapse
The wish might die
The wish is yours
However fleeting, there’s always another
Wish to try
very cool, https://substack.com/@jaygermany/note/c-87925157
Here is some audio candy for this weeks poem challenge. Thank you! 🙏🏽
https://open.substack.com/pub/andnowmiguel/p/water-moon-howling-audio-lyric-poem?r=2c4qsw&utm_medium=ios
https://snuzz.substack.com/p/long-lost-galaxies
I hope this is the correct place to post my poem today. This is a snapshot of my estrangement, almost ten years since meaningful contact with my youngest child, who will soon be 32. The note he wrote was “from the mountain” when he was 8 or 9. I still have it, along with some of his drawings and other art work.
Challenge 2:
missing, wish, blame, gem, lost, long, phenomenal, crime, history, interstellar
“You’re a gem to me
And always will be:”
Remembering this written note
From my lost son, written so long ago.
I know that love he felt for me
Is still carried in his heart,
But he went missing somewhere interstellar,
Somewhere out of my skewed orbit, saying
I’m to blame for the unknown crime
Of giving him a history to run from.
“You’re a gem to me
And always will be:”
Perhaps I still could be,
If my phenomenal wish could find its way
To your door, one fine day.
Love remembers Love.
When is the deadline?
Between now and upcoming Thursday!