Where and how did your relationship start?
I eye your eyes
I heart your heart
Our footprints mark
Where our song starts
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Day: January 11, 2018
HAIKU: I SIT IN DARKNESS
By Charles Robert Lindholm
I Sit In Darkness
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do not
Come learn a better response to Hurt – “Do Not”
Snow Kissed
Come and glide with a snowflake!
that snowflake
just there
hang glides
an infinitesimal
parachute
crystal bedizened
sprucely guided
by a snow sylph.
she kisses
my frosty cheek
a glacial and ephemeral
intimation
everything cold
is new again
Quote of the Week
Enjoy this quote of the week on words – the poet’s tools.
That was the thing about words, they were clear and specific — chair, eye, stone — but when you talked about feelings, words were too stiff, they were this and not that, they couldn’t include all the meanings. In defining, they always left something out.
-Janet Fitch
#158 POETRY =
By Charles Robert Lindholm
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WILL YOU LET ME LOVE YOU?
By Charles Robert Lindholm
I don’t know who I am yet
for I have not faced the darkest night
nor heard the howling demons
that hunger for my soul
I have not felt the razors edge
nor heard the wooing whispers
tempting me to use it
to let my blood be
the ink of my final poem
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The Reluctant Poet 