Loose Words Letter #51
Wait and Hope
Welcome to the weekly newsletter from Loose Words. These letters go out every Thursday (sometimes Friday) and highlight many of our published poems from the past week. We hope that these poems find you able to wait and hope. What other option do we have in times like these?
“All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.” — Alexandre Dumas
Each week, we post a few lines from each featured poem (all friend links so anyone can read them) to give you a small bit of the whole. We encourage you to read the full versions by clicking in and taking the time to soak it all in. A one-minute read could change your day.
Featured Poet
Each week we feature one of our contributing poets at Loose Words on our homepage and in this letter. This week it is Unni Nambiar. Read 5 of his poems on our homepage this week.
Collection
Last year we introduced Collections to Loose Words. Collections are groupings of poems with an overall theme. You can find Collections on the homepage underneath the Featured Poems, Notes From the Editor, and Featured Poet sections.
On Life features 8 poems from 8 different poets, all written about life. This section is a great way to get acquainted with multiple works around one theme, as well as to find poets you haven’t read before or ones you shouldn’t miss.
On Life features loose words from Aspen Blue, Jonathan Greene, Florence Wanjiku, Simran Kankas, Gregory D. Welch, Bradley J Nordell, Jay Sizemore, and Venessa Yeh.
Loose Words From Last Week
Daughter of an Absent Father by Wild Flower
“You can be the
d a u g h t e r
he never wanted, or,
the woman who
knows her worth.”
“most of her
slips back
under the clouds,
to where there’s
just dank light
and the unending pull
of the abyss”
Path of Creativity by Connie Song
“an unshakeable itch of the underbelly,
a release of demons torn from within a core forever scarred,
or crystallized drops of an infinite, unwavering universe
building words uninterrupted?”
Of Torrents by Christine Kelly
“Breath lost and found
in the spindrift and spume
and the ebullition he’d long held at bay
giving rise to a groundswell
of mutual surrender.”
“But your wheat-coloured skin,
Fiery as sin
Sweet as buttermilk
Haunts my everything
Like the worm haunts the silk
Like the winter haunts the spring”
A Lake Of Still Tears by Lark Morrigan
“There are no answers,
only a lake of still tears
holding so many
questions”
“And neither can read the texture of this truth,
Both battling the front lines of ceaseless change,
Distracted to what the true meaning of it all is,”
“coasting slow on rails into the day,
suspension like water skim
melting my eyes with the sunrise
to a soundtrack colouring the drab”
Every Now & Then by Aaron Quist
“If not now, then
when is the when
when I’ll know
it’s when?”
This Feeling by Eashan Reddy Kotha
“I hold it close to me,
this feeling of mine,
it stays inside,
under lock and key,”
Weekly Quote
“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” — E. M. Forster
We didn’t know what was ahead of us. We didn’t know what was waiting for us. We still don’t know what is waiting for us, but we won’t find it if we don’t let go of the past.
