We Met Again, Mid-Sentence
Beauty is not a verdict but a verb,
rendering itself at different speeds.
In one eye, the face is chorus—
in another, it is a single bell.
We met in the middle distance
and called that distance human.
Not quite strangers, not quite known,
our words still hanging in the air
like laundry left to dry in dusk.
You spoke first, or maybe I did—
the sentence already half-formed,
like a bridge built from both ends
hoping to meet in the middle.
Time had softened the edges,
but the resonance remained.
I remembered your cadence
before I remembered your name.
We did not ask where we’d been.
We did not ask why we paused.
We simply resumed— as if silence
had been the punctuation
we both agreed upon.
And in that unfinished sentence,
beauty moved again—
not as conclusion,
but as continuation.
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Brilliant! Poetic is the word indeed. In this poem there is ethereal and yet vast and deep meaning that floats like a vapor of perfume unseen but sensed in a most pleasurable and distantly recognizable memory. A simply lovely write and a fave
A true meeting venue for people! Thank you, Soren🕊️🙏🏻
Beautiful write, arqios.
Thanks Jerry. 🕊️🙏🏻
My friend, this is luminous. The pause becomes punctuation, silence agreed upon. Beautifully crafted…a continuation, not conclusion. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
Thanks Tristan, that was exactly what the poem was aiming for! Punctuated with words and the non-word elements. Now let us continue🕊️🙏🏻
Yep - human - we must all be human on here, or else we'd never get past the verify. C'mon now, I knows some poets ain't human! LOL.
Hence the meet “in the middle distance” and still know the cadence before the name. It’s kind of proof that whatever we are — flesh, code, or something in between — there’s a shared language that bridges the gap. Scary thought there; like talking animals or inanimate objects. Good one Orchi!
Ohhh, since when were ANY poets human?! lol.
Superhuman? 🤪
Yep! lol.
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So much going on here between two people.
All in a fraction of a Second.
Enjoyed.
Sometimes that’s all the time that it takes🕊️🙏🏻accordions moment of sorts. 😊thanks Kevin🤩
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