Donations are essential to keep Write Out Loud going    

communication (Remove filter)

Twixt Pen and Eye

I, poet, may write of love

and in that moment feel

a meaning clear:

yet my soul knows love

my hand will never pen

 

You, reader, read that word

and think to know my mind  

 

              I say you cannot know the love

my heart placed behind that word, only

your sense of the love you thought you saw

 

The poet can never truly speak

and have his reader k...

Read and leave comments (3)

🌷(7)

poemswritingpoetscommunication

Danse Macabre

Too much was lost in silence

too long the time that winds

between our words of love and passion

with communion only in our minds

 

Too much assumed in union

of our two souls' mute desires

but I did not see her inmost needs

or hear how quietly pain suspires

 

I should have peeped inside

while she nightly dreamed in peace

to glimpse her mind's apparel

as it dan...

Read and leave comments (0)

🌷(2)

loveillnesstimeforesightunderstandingcommunication

The messages

What words have passed

What said

What read

What meaning cast?

 

What recall flows

What thought

What tort

What grievance shows?

 

What edge is crossed

What line

What sign

What friendship lost?

 

What nightmare grown

What meme

What seam

What darkness sown?

 

What text is read

What hyped

What typed

What despair fed?

 

What lov...

Read and leave comments (0)

🌷(1)

wordscommunicationthoughtswritingtextingmailemailangerarguehurtpain

This site uses cookies. By continuing to browse, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

Find out more Hide this message