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  • Oswald Perez shared a letter in the Group logo of PoetryPoetry group 6 months, 4 weeks ago

    Try To Remember This Kind of September

    Dear Unsealers,

    It’s the first day of September. I know, it feels like the summer went by so fast.

    As is the custom at the beginning of a new month, I make it feel right at home.
    And I hope that September brings all of you comfort and joy as the seasons start to change.

    This is my welcome to the month:

    Try to remember, this kind of September
    The ninth month of twelve in 2023

    30 days begin anew
    A season of transition on the horizon
    From summer in the first half to fall in the second half

    Celebrating labor, remembering a most fateful day and Hispanic heritage
    The days shorten as the heat lessens

    A month of going places
    All roads first lead to the Hellenic Republic
    And then, to the next work destination

    Try to remember this kind of September
    A time where everything’s up in the air

    Setting the stage for more reinvention this year

    Oswald Perez

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    • Oswald, I love that you start each month with a piece. It is so uplifting and really sets a positive tone for the new month. Keep being you. You are pure sunshine and I am so glad you found our writing family. <3 Lauren

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  • Chloe shared a letter in the Group logo of PoetryPoetry group 7 months, 2 weeks ago

    “meat”

    ~Learning how to find safety & healing in sensuality after trauma; building positive associations and being myself for the first time~

    I know you’ve just gone
    but I miss you already
    Oh, why not just stay
    until I’m all done?

    Not meant to be a lover,
    but call me your concubine
    to meet your needs
    as well as mine

    Oh, come into me
    in the flesh, in the flesh
    I want to feel meat
    in the flesh, in the flesh

    I know I’ve been here before
    but I forget already
    why I’ve now come
    to feel this again

    I never wanted a friend
    I waddle around
    asking, “are you my lover?”
    Two birds of a feather fly on

    Oh, come into me
    in the flesh, in the flesh
    I want to feel meat
    in the flesh, in the flesh

    Oh, why are you here?
    In my flesh, in my flesh
    I want to feel it
    I want to feel

    Oh, come into me
    in the flesh, in the flesh
    I want to feel it
    I want to heal

    I know you’ve just gone
    but I miss you already
    Why not just stay?

    CnSchultz

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    • As someone who has gone through sexual trauma, keep writing your feelings, and now that you will continue to heal yourself. You are so powerful. You’ve got this! <3 Lauren

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  • Trinity Michelle shared a letter in the Group logo of PoetryPoetry group 7 months, 3 weeks ago

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    Senses

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  • Oswald Perez shared a letter in the Group logo of PoetryPoetry group 10 months ago

    A Welcome, To The Month of June

    Dear Unsealers,

    As I’ve done on the first day of each month for the last three years, I write a poem to welcome in the new month. It’s crazy to think that five months have already passed, and so much has happened since 2023 began. A new temporary job after eight years in my previous one, co-hosting an open mic for poets with disabilities and attempting to move forward on becoming an independent adult. So many poems and writings created, with many people past and present making stops in my life.

    Now, the summer is beginning to take hold prior to the season’s formal beginning. June is a blank slate right now, there’s a lot of space to fill between now and the 30th.

    Without further ado…the poem:

    Welcome, the month of June!
    As the year is flying by

    The sixth month is here already
    30 new days have arrived

    A month of transition
    Spring’s ending and summer’s on the horizon

    Endless days of blue skies shining
    Longer twlight leads the warm nights

    A blank slate is on tap right now
    It won’t stay that way for long

    It’s time to close out
    An eventful first half of the year

    Oswald Perez

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    • I love this sentiment. What a nice poem and what a beautiful way to kick off each month. I love it! Thank you for sharing! Keep ’em coming! <3 lauren

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    • Thank you for sharing and I think that what you’re doing is very very unique. Writing a poem for the first day of each month. This is a really good way to start off the month

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  • Romancing Time

    ROMANCING TIME

    “To Time
    Hello time,
    Haven’t heard from you for a long time.
    How are you spending your time,
    Without me coming along for a run of time?

    I miss your light, bright laugh as you fly by
    Your transience makes you all the more precious.
    Don’t abandon my side and leave me lonely.
    Alone to face your swiftly moving wondrous
    Glory that eases with your passing.”
    (Chehab, M. K., PerfectlyFlawed, 2021)

    I wished to thank you for your time, the one that helped me overcome pain and disillusionment, that almost brought me down, at one time or another.  Yes time, your earthly flow is a balm on my soul, which you soothed with your constant presence and support.  Your availability at all hours of the day brought me comfort, when I was confused and drawn. Your help in marking time with me, gave me permission to speak my mind and get all the hurt off my chest.  ‘A clean slate’ for a time, is a wondrous gift of rejuvenation imbued in optimism.

    Whenever I think of you, time, I know that each of your hands is holding me up to the tests of time.  In my five decades, I have emigrated four times to three Continents,  experienced loss, betrayal,  disillusionment,  fear, horror, injustice,  motherhood, ‘wifehood’, childhood upheaval,  travel, adventure,  laughter, faith, optimism, and love.  With your help, time, I have had many ups and downs, but what leaves the greatest impression is laughter.  To laugh is to live, and, to live is to savor life.  With laughter comes the humor of a situation that you can only perceive when thinking positively.  They’ve even come up with laughing yoga, laughter university (California- of course, where else?!!), and laughing Kung Fu.  If that doesn’t prove my point, I don’t know what will! So, laughter is uplifting, optimistic, and tickles your funny bone in order to redirect your frown to a smile! It’s also important to note that, life’s constant changes and your ability to adapt to new realities is but a drop in the well of your knowledge and patience, especially when you have a sense of humor that helps alleviate the stress, anxiety of any major changes.

    Relish each stage in your life as each is as transient as time itself,  one moment it’s there, another gone into the caverns of memories so deep you need to excavate them in order to remember a specific moment in time.  I’ve learned that time is precious, and that you need to make the most of this treasure you’ve been given. As time flows into an ocean of evocation: a smell, a ray of light, a flower, a cry, a laugh, a touch, a kiss, or all together, will invoke a feeling of well-being that’s unparalleled in your heart.   Savor it, and don’t dwell on the negativity that time, and time again, may erode facts turning them into feelings and interpretations that become dubious in their veracity.

    I hope we meet more often time, as I enjoy unburdening my lot to your compassionate ear.

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    Yours truly,

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    • Malakkc this was such a heavy and educational piece. Thank you so much for sharing!! I like how you described time in different phases/sequences which allowed for the space to breathe and appreciate time as we know it!
      Wishing you well 🙂

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