Lavender
Lavender
Sep 10, 2022

Unrequited

Let me gather my thoughts...
they drift around me like
fallen leaves before the rain,
like flyaway cottonwood
stirred by my wandering feet.
I scatter each thought of you
with every bewildered step.
Let me gather my thoughts...

You are in my sunlight.
You are in my silence.
You are in my music,
my poetry,
my rain.

If there could ever be a day
with no thought of you,
I would somehow
miss you still.
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About This Poem

Style/Type: Free verse

Review Request Intensity: I appreciate moderate constructive criticism

Editing Stage: Editing - rough draft

About the Author

Country/Region: United States

Favorite Poets: I tend to read Ted Kooser

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Comments

Rosewood Apothecary

I love it. It’s so inviting. No corrections or suggestions, I just love it.

Tim

Geezer

How I wish that I had written this! It says everything that one might say to the love of their life. Not a single word out of place.
~ Geez.
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Lavender

I find that love is the hardest subject to write about. I'm glad you like this!
Thank you!
L

Geezer

hard to write about when writing from the mind of a poet such as yourself, who uses the pen as a conduit for emotions buried
and hidden. ~ Geez.
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