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Image credit: Feature image generated with DALL·E using a prompt based on this poem and its themes.
If this piece resonates with you and you’re a visual artist, I’d love to feature your own soul-crafted work in place of the AI image.
To the woman I’ve not met yet —First of all: hello!Although I cannot see your face,You’re just a shadow,A barely visible silhouette,An unlockable video game character.I cannot see your smile,The colour of your eyes,Or how your hair radiatesUnder the summer sun.I have...
I keep digging deepIn the graveyardOf old memories.No tombstone, no nameNo dates necessary.Daturas and nightshadesHovering over your remains –Marking where you lay,On your final resting place. My shovel hits the coffin –Wood once varnished with my tears,Now rotting...
The wise ones often sayWhen one faces death –The eternal oblivion,The shared experienceThat makes us all kin –One sees with clarityThe life that one livedWith moments bitter-sweetSavoured once more,In a flash of a moment,In the blink of an eye...What I’d like to...
Do you remember?That lazy summer’s day?When a few sleepy raindropsCradled by the sky,Rolled over and fell downFrom their soft beds?You do remember, don’t you?How they landed on your cheek?How gently you woke them up,With that sweet smile of yours?How the spark in your...
I do not wish to be immortal —Eternal lonelinessRather than dancingThe dance of decay.As long as my ephemeral existenceFinds home in your laughter,In our shared drop of tear,In our fleeting glanceThat may never cross again,In your fragile memories…As long as I can beIn...
We have been separated By aeons and generations And places of all kind – Ideas of ancestors Long forgotten by time, Travelling through the void, On this lonely mote of dust; Identities of all kind Of meanings arbitrary Thrust onto us, Without us understanding, Or...