Lost Lines

Published on by Tosha Michelle

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This is my elegy for those lost lines of poetry.
The ones that died in my mind,
when I was in the store, out on the town
or walking in the park.
Those times when pen and paper chose to stay
home and take a nap. My usually
fruitful memory-barren.

Go, little poem off to the land of word limbo,
out into nothingness.
The braids of forgotten syntax and out of sync time
will guide you. You’ll forever dwell with untold
stories, names unrecalled, and dreams unremembered.
What if and
what never was will comfort you.

I’ll mourn for you as I sit at my desk
staring at the unfulfilled pages, lonely,
for lines that came and died suddenly.
Erased between here and there.
Sentences that turned into ashes,
leaving only the residue of punctuation
and a memory of the moment
just before I forgot to remember.

-Tosha Michelle

18 thoughts on “Lost Lines”

  6. Reblogged this on sherriemiranda1 and commented:
    Many say Nothing Is Lost. I can say that things that were in my original idea for my novel ended up in the final draft quite by accident! Enjoy the poem either way! 😉 ❤
    Peace, love & the return of forgotten words,
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