You Never Said

Gold cherry
Poem of the week
Pick of the Month

By Turlough

Fri, 01 Sep 2023
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30 comments
 

 

I missed sixty-one

Surely not all of them

I knew you for three

 

There must have been

A glass of something

In the Brewery Tap

Or wine bar 

Where meatheads met chiffons

Where Alexander met Luther

Their musical wallpaper

Not matching the colour scheme

In our dream house

 

No memory of cards

Those forget-me-nots

We forgot to send

No precious souvenir

In paper and bows

To glitter and glow

For evermore

 

You never said

I too tend not to say

Just another day

 

I didn’t know it was today

Until last month

As brambles and thorns cleared

Reams of the past reappeared

The Cocteaus’ Bluebeard

On repeat

 

Nothing written down

Only blank pages

In my imaginary diary

You must have said

You must have said so many things

 

Maybe hidden beneath

Decades of angel dust

There’s a scribbled note

Something I wrote

So you’d know I was there

 

I’m still there

Somewhere

And I haven’t missed today

Today all I’ll miss

Is my Siren

 

Image:

Every image I use is from a photograph I have taken myself. 

On this occasion – A light flickers in Malki Chiflik.

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Comments

Submitted by seashore on

Thank you, thank you - so beautiful it brought tears xx

Submitted by Turlough on

Aye Coral. A definite lump in the throat day.

Tx

Turlough

Submitted by Ewan on

  Not to say beautiful.
Well done.

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Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

This is such a sad reflective poem Turlough. It's always hard to put in to words how we feel about someone special we have known, but you've created such a wonderful personal memory here.

Memories are the one thing no one can take away. 

Jenny.

 

Submitted by Turlough on

Thank you very much Jenny. You are exactly right in what you say.

Turlough

Submitted by Ewan on

 A fine poem full of sad beauty. It's our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day.

Please share and/or retweet fellow ABCTalers.

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Submitted by Turlough on

Thank you Ewan. Your words are greatly appreciated.

Turlough

Submitted by Turlough on

Thank you Ewan. Your words are greatly appreciated.

Turlough

Submitted by airyfairy on

Absolutely beautiful, Turlough. Beautiful on any day, but this is very special.

Submitted by Turlough on

Thank you very much airyfairy. 

Turlough

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

Such a moving piece Turlough - I'm very glad it's amassed all the honours it deserves.

 

Submitted by Turlough on

Thank you very much Claudine. No one will ever fully understand how much today's cherry things mean to me. 

Turlough

Submitted by seashore on

I hoped this would win poem of the week, Terry. So full of emotion. I can't stop reading it xx

Submitted by Turlough on

Knowing that, Coral, cements it in my heart and my head forever. Tx

Turlough

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Though this is full of sadness and yearning, it is the Light words which seem the strongest - glitter and glow and stardust and music and dream. Your candle photo is perfect, the flame bringing warmth and brightness, undefeated as your memory you made together shines through years. Congratulations on Pick of the Week, really well deserved

 

Submitted by Turlough on

Aww, thanks very much Di.

Turlough

Submitted by Penny4athought on

Yes, this is a well deserved pick of the week. There are those poems that touch a heart chord and this is one. We do reflect on past connections and wonder if it is as remembered, or was something missed? ...“Imaginary Diary", I think we've all written in those. A great poem and again, very well deserving of all the accolades here. yessmiley

Penny4athought

Submitted by Turlough on

Your kind words are greatly appreciated.  Thank you very much.

Turlough

Submitted by celticman on

you glitter and glow as you attend to the woes. 

 

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

This is our Poem of the Month - Congratulations!

 

Submitted by Turlough on

Oooh, big gulp.

That means a lot to me.

Thank you very very much.

Turlough

Submitted by Mark Burrow on

Stunning poem, T. Beautiful. 

 

Submitted by Turlough on

Thank you very much M. 

Turlough

Submitted by seashore on

So pleased for you Terry (and for me and my girl too) x

Submitted by Turlough on

Thank you Coral. I couldn't have done it without you and your girl.

Tx

Turlough

Submitted by seashore on

That's a lovely thing to say Terry, and means so much x

Submitted by Kris on

There are poems that evokes images, meanings, emotions, stirs souls in places that need to be touched, like a ripple effect.

In the sense, this poem sends ripples and stirs souls of everyone who reads it- Here on this website- that would ripples & soul stirring around the world.

Accolades well deserved Turlough

 

Submitted by Turlough on

Such kind words Kris. Thank you very much indeed.

Turlough

Submitted by Jane Hyphen on

I don't know how I missed this poem. Some people are like mythical beings in the story of your life, and as time passes, their presence in your consciousness doesn't fade, it becomes yet more special. Their memory triggered by a date or a time of the year. Your words are a wonderful and stirring tribute.

 

Submitted by Turlough on

Thanks Jane, for taking the time to read and comment. It's greatly appreciated.

Turlough